Spray Drying of Tomatoes and Tomato Paste

This is a special fruit which is spray dried in large amounts from a concentrated paste. The powder is made from Hot Break paste or Cold Break paste. The paste used is strained free of skin, seeds and long fibers, and is concentrated to a maximum of 45 °Brix for Hot Break and 50 °Brix for Cold Break. GEA Process Engineering Inc. has developed a special tomato spray dryer, which is the most used tomato dryer worldwide. We have also developed the technology for the drying of tomato paste on the FILTERMAT® Spray Dryer (an integrated belt). The tomato powder can be made without the used of any additives on the Niro dryers.

The FILTERMAT® spray dryer is an integrated belt dryer for drying of hygroscopic, thermoplastic and slowly crystallizing products and typically involves the handling of very sticky intermediate materials at a lower temperature level than that possible in conventional spray dryer layouts.

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