What Is Concentrate? Applications of Concentrate in the Food and Beverage Industry

What is Concentrate and what are its applications in the food and beverage industry? That is a question that many people are interested in. Let’s learn about Concentrate to see the useful applications of this product line in the processing industry and daily life

1. What is Concentrate?

1.1 Concentrate concept

What is Concentrate? In the simplest terms, Juice Concentrate is extracted from fresh and pure fruit and vegetable ingredients, then steam separated to reduce weight. Concentrate provides more flexible options in transportation and storage.

To make Juice Concentrate, the whole fruit must be thoroughly washed, scrubbed, and mashed or mixed to create a fruit blend. Much of the water content is then extracted and evaporated. Depending on the nature of each product and to meet the needs of customers.

After processing, the product is stored at the right temperature to increase shelf life. The optimal temperature to store Concentrate is from -5 degrees C to -18 degrees C.

1.2 Uses of Concentrate

What are the uses of Concentrate? Juice products in the concentrated form will have more convenient storage and longer shelf life. As it does not take up as much space as raw juice, you can save on transportation and storage costs.

Concentrate is often used in food and drink that only needs the scent and flavor of the fruit, such as sodas, cocktails, drink mixes, pies, jelly, etc. If the texture and strong scent of the fresh fruit is required, you can combine Puree and Concentrate or add fresh fruit to the dish as many chefs have done creatively.

2. Advantages of Concentrate compared to fresh fruit

Fresh fruit usually has a short shelf life apart from seasonal factors, Juice Concentrate is a great alternative idea, still ensuring to meet the requirements of health and safety, nutrition and natural taste retention, and convenient usage.

Compared to seasonal fresh fruits, Concentrate always ensures an abundant source of supply, uniformity in color and taste, and ready-to-serve. From Concentrate, you can make a variety of beverages such as soda, shaved ice, milk tea, fruit tea, etc.

Unopened products can be stored easily in normal conditions, in a cool place, and away from direct light. Once opened products are kept refrigerated to ensure the best state.

Juice concentrate saves money, time, and labor and reduces waste from removing the skins of fresh fruits.

3. What are the health benefits of Concentrate?

Concentrate or concentrated fruit mixture attracts many users because of its convenience, reasonable price, easy storage, and versatile features. They also provide some of the same health benefits as fresh fruit. Because Concentrate is dehydrated, it provides the body with many times more nutrients than fresh fruit of the same volume.

3.1 Rich in essential nutrients

Juice Concentrate of fruit and vegetables are healthiest if made with 100% fresh fruit or vegetables – with no additives such as added sugar or salt after the concentrate process.

3.2 Retain beneficial nutrients

Concentrate contains beneficial plant compounds such as carotenoids, anthocyanins, and flavonoids. They have been linked to many health benefits, for example, improved heart health and reduced inflammation.

The flavonoids in orange juice help fight obesity-related chronic inflammation. In one study, obese people who drank orange juice after meals for at least seven consecutive days had reduced markers of inflammation.

3.3 May promote skin health

Many juice concentrates are rich in vitamin C and antioxidants, which can promote skin health and slow the effects of skin aging, boosting the immune system.

Concentrated juice can be a reasonable substitute for fresh juice.

4. What are some of the popular fresh fruit concentrates?

4.1 Passion fruit

Passion fruit is a nutrient-rich tropical fruit that is easy to process into a drink to help purify the body. Although a passion fruit is small, it contains a lot of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants beneficial for health. Passion fruit concentrate is a convenient product with many uses in cooking, mixing, baking, ice cream making, and any products with fruit ingredients.

4.2 Mango

Mango is a perfect ingredient for beer, wine, spirits making industry, other product processing industries, or to make a naturally flavored drink.

Mango concentrate has a high nutritional value because it contains large amounts of vitamins A, B, C, and E, protein, carbohydrates, and fiber. Add mango concentrate to any beverage, smoothie, jam, yogurt, dessert mix, milkshake, or mousse for a delicious fresh mango flavor.

4.3 Dragon fruit

Dragon fruit is a tropical fruit famous for its bright red skin, juicy flesh, and sweet taste. Dragon fruit is low in calories but packed with vitamins, minerals, and beneficial plant compounds such as polyphenols, carotenoids, and betacyanins.

Concentrated dragon fruit juice is made from fresh dragon fruit with a sweet and sour taste, packed according to standards to ensure health and safety, and the taste of fresh fruit.

4.4 Tomato

Tomato juice concentrate is not only the main ingredient in the classic Bloody Mary cocktail but is also enjoyed as a delicious and healthy drink.

While many people consider tomatoes a vegetable due to their common culinary uses, it is biologically classified as fruit. However, many companies categorize tomato juice as vegetable juice due to its taste in addition to its low sugar content factor.

5. Where to buy Concentrate

With more than 27 years of establishment, Nafoods Group Joint Stock Company is a leading enterprise in Vietnam in developing the GREEN – DIGITALIZED – SUSTAINABLE agricultural value chain from breeding, planting, processing, and exporting fresh fruit, dried fruit, juice concentrate products. We specialize in exporting to big markets such as the US, Russia, the Middle East, Japan, Korea, etc.

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