JUICE PRODUCTION

High-quality juices with high nutritive and physiological quality can be efficiently and very gently extracted through the use of the ELCRACK® pro-cess - without heat or other additives. In contrast to conventional cell disruption technologies, the value adding substances are preserved. 

For a fruit juice processed in a decanter centrifuge, an increase in juice yield from 58 to 72 % can be obtained. Compared to a time-consuming and costly enzymatic maceration, ELCRACK® can be used continuously with total treatment costs between 1 and 2 €/t of raw material.

Apart from the increase in juice yield, the juice contains more valuable components such as pigments, antioxidants and vitamins. Other possible uses of the process include the pre-treatment of oil seeds, marine organisms or cell cultures for the production of functional ingredients for food, cosmetics or pharmaceuticals.