Nature Safe Fruits & Vegetables Coating Gel

Nature-safe helps to improve the shelf life of fresh fruits and vegetables.

• Post-harvest loss of fresh produces is a serious problem due to rapid deterioration during pre & post-harvest conditions. It is affecting the quality of fruits & vegetables.
• These commodities in tropical or warm region along with high humidity have short life time after harvesting and farmers suffer economic losses due to fungal / bacterial infection.
• The application of edible coatings on fruits & vegetables is an effective method to improve their quality &thus, increase shelf-life. It can be safely eaten as a part of food
• For industrial or large scale fruits or leafy vegetables processing units NatureSafe helps to improve quality and shelf life till they are sold in reasonable time [<15 days], hence rejection rate is reduced considerably.
• Simple dip coating process can be used, with engineering solutions for high volume productivity. Or contract processing services to farmers may be done who don’t wish to invest in plant equipment on cooperative basis.
• Coated fruits and vegetables can be store for longer time in refrigerator up to 3 weeks.
• Vacuum packed fruits & vegetables can stored for months.

NatureSafe is the second product developed as a shelf life enhancer for the fresh fruits and vegetable. These commodities in tropical or warm regions along with high humidity have short life time after harvesting and farmers suffer economic losses due to fungal/bacterial infection. In case fruits or leafy vegetable processing units NatureSafe helps to improve quality and shelf life till they are sold in reasonable time [<15 days], hence rejection rate is reduced considerably.

Nature-Safe is recognized for meeting the industry’s highest standards for quality, performance, consistency, and functionality. Our exceptional Research & Development team is continually working to solve industry problems with the introduction of new products. Our knowledgeable team can reformulate or develop new formulations to meet customer needs and standards, guaranteeing satisfaction

Fruits and vegetables are highly perishable commodity. Due to inadequate facility, challenging ambient conditions , they decay soon and become unfit for human consumption. These losses are enormous & leading to distress by farmers & distributers. For many years due to lack of proper facility especially, postharvest management farm produce are wasted. It is becoming apparently important to provide a simple but effective alternative to such issues.

Nature Safe Gel is recommended effectively extend the storage and shelf -life of whole fruits and vegetables

Salient Features

• Long Storage: In long term storage of some fruits. 2 – 3 weeks storage at room temperature and > 2 months at 4°C.
• Hydrated: Fruits & vegetables are kept all time hydrated. They remain fresh until used.
• Coating further improves disease severity
• Vacuum packed fruits & vegetables can remain fresh for long time at low temperature.
• NatureSafe GEL should be kept at low temperature as soon it is received.
• Shelf life of Nature Safe gel is maximum 3 months

Proposed process for short term storage

Small scale operations:

• Washing fruits/ vegetables in water. Wipe dry.
• Make 2% dilution in potable water [20 gm / litre] & stir well. It will disperse easily in water.
• Place fruits / vegetables in a perforated plastic / steel container & lower in the above solution
• Soaking in NatureSafe GEL for 20 minutes. Air / manual agitation of solution is recommended for uniform coating on the fruits / vegetable.
• Lift out the perforated container out of the solution and hold for draining out excess liquid.
• Spread the fruits / vegetable over cotton sheet / trays / floor for natural drying or under fan.
• In about 30 minutes all surface of fruits / vegetable will dry out.
• Grade the fruits / vegetable by size / weight and pack them as per desired.

Industrial scale process

• One can design automated processes for loading /uplifting the perforated SS basket.
• Final drying may be done in heated tunnel or with air curtain.
• Dried fruits & vegetables can be packed on-line at the end of tunnel.
• Suitably weighed / graded fruits / vegetable may be packed suitably.
• Vacuum packing would be preferred for long term / export application & kept in cold storage.