9 benefits of Dehydrated chikoo better than frozen chikoo for Export & Industry use?


Is Dehydrated Chikoo fruit better than frozen Chikoo for Export & Industry use?

Use of dehydrated fruits as ingredients in the HORECA and Food processing industry is a fast growing trend.

We find dehydrated fruits in energy bars, muesli, cakes, cookies, ice creams and many other fruit products.

However fresh or frozen fruit is still the preferred option when it comes to desserts like milkshakes, ice cream,

kulfi etc. 


One fruit that has high demand in the desserts segment is Chikoo. Most of the companies making desserts from Chikoo use it in its frozen form available from the market. They do so to avoid the cumbersome process of procuring chikoo from the market, ripening it and peeling it at their factory. Fruit quality, taste, supply source assurance, price fluctuations and year round availability are some factors due to which Chikoo desserts are not manufactured at a very large scale. Also cold storage and a refrigerated supply chain adds on heavily to the cost of procurement.


Runwan Foodtech LLP under their brand Aura Green has launched an innovative product in the form of 100% natural dehydrated chikoo slices. This ingredient presents the HORECA and dessert industry to develop multiple products from Chikoo without the hassles of using fresh fruit and is also cost effective over frozen fruit. Let’s see 9 benefits of dry chikoo over frozen chikoo -


  1. 9 months certified shelf life, zero wastage

  2. 100% Natural taste and texture of chikoo fruit is retained in the byproducts

  3. No cold storage or refrigerated supply chain

  4. Extremely convenient to use ingredient, zero pre processing cost in factory

  5. Cost effective compared to frozen chikoo fruit

  6. Supply source assurance, direct from GI tagged farms in Dahanu Gholvad Bordi

  7. Quality assurance, processed in modern hygienic solar driers  

  8. No added sugar, preservatives or chemicals

  9. Sugar free products can also be developed   


 

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