| Title: | Beverage Concentrate/ Paste from Mixed Fruit and Vegetable, in Collapsible Tube |
| Value Proposition: | Mixed fruit and vegetable beverage concentrate in a collapsible tube provides a nutrient dense, convenient, and versatile product combining the benefits of both fruits and vegetables. It offers balanced nutrition, rich in vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, while ensuring ease of use and portability. The tube packaging enables hygienic dispensing, reduced wastage, and longer shelf life, making it ideal for consumers seeking quick, healthy beverage options with consistent quality and taste. |
| Summary Application: | The process involves selection of suitable fruits and vegetables, washing, peeling, pulping, filtration, blending, concentration by heating, addition of sugar or salt and preservatives, homogenization, and filling into sterilized collapsible tubes. The concentrate is diluted with water to prepare instant health drinks, juices, soups, smoothies, or flavor bases. It is widely used in households, hospitals, hotels, catering services, and health food industries for its nutritional and functional benefits. |
| Advantages: | The collapsible tube ensures easy storage, transport, and hygienic usage with minimal contamination. It reduces post harvest losses of raw materials and allows year round availability, making it economical and suitable for both retail and bulk consumption. |
| Commercialization Status: | Licensed awaiting commercialisation |
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