| 摘要 |
<p>A process for the exploitation of tomatoes and the manufacture of tomato products, comprises the steps of: a) Pretreating the tomatoes by washing, crushing, and removing waste materials such as peels and seeds; b) Separating the serum from the pulp; c) Dividing the pulp as follows: 'A' parts of the pulp being used as a pulp product or as a raw material for pulp products; 'B' parts of the pulp being sent to an extraction step; d) Extracting the fraction 'B' of the pulp, to produce extracted tomato oleoresins; e) Using the extracted pulp obtained in step (d), as a raw material for food products; f) Removing 'C' parts of the serum obtained in step (b), to be used as food product or as a raw material for food products; g) Concentrating the remaining serum to yield a concentrate of soluble tomato solids; h) Removing 'D' parts of tomato soluble solids to be used in the preparation of food products, wherein: A = 0 to 1; B = 0 to 1; C = 0 to 1; D = 0 to 1; i) Optionally, drying the concentrate of step (g) to yield a powder; and j) Varying the values of A, B, C and D so as to obtain the desired amount of pulp products, tomato oleoresins, nutritional fibers products, serum products and serum concentrate, at any given time.</p> |
