Some people might not be able to tell apart what the difference is between fruit concentrate and fruit puree.
Whereas the usages of the mentioned products are varied, it is so important to get a better awareness of them.
Do you already know the concepts of concentrate and puree?
Do you know what distinguishes them from each other?
What about the way of producing each one?
In this section, we are going to get you to be familiar with the items above and understand how they are made.
Pure refers to a stoned and peeled fruit that is thoroughly crushed and then mixed.
Purees are made from those kinds of fruits that have a higher meat-to-juice ratio, such as strawberries, apricots, peaches, bananas, apples, plums, cornels, and so on.
In the process of making fruit puree, the first stage is washing, because the external substances including soil, dust, dirt, leaves and so on must be eliminated from the surface.
Also, the remains of insecticides must be surely removed after the washing process is performed.
Then, the fruits are led to the next stage in which they are supposed to be stoned.
Those kinds of fruits having no core skip this stage and are directly taken to the mixing phase.
There, they are completely crushed.
No heat is used in the preparation of fruit purees.
The term concentrate refers to the fruit that is dehydrated and stoned, then heated to a high temperature.
As a result, the fruit completely loses its water and becomes a thick substance.
The process of concentration is usually used for those kinds of fruits that have a higher juice-to-meat ratio, such as pomegranates, cherries, oranges, watermelons, grapes, and so on.
As it was already mentioned, in the process of making fruit concentrate, using heat is necessary.
Strawberry Market Size
In this section, we tend to cover the data associated with the market size of strawberries.
In the year 2020, strawberries were the 1708th most traded commodity in the world.
The total amount of trading strawberries was about 1.20 million US dollars.
Interestingly, the growth rate was 4.82%, reaching from 1.16 to 1.20 million dollars between the years 2018 and 2020.
According to the statistics provided by the International Research Centers, some countries were the top exporters of strawberries in the year 2020.
Mexico with a trade of 174 million dollars took the first rank.
Egypt, Poland, Chile, and Morocco were the next four big exporters after Mexico.
On the other side of the market, some countries were the 5 top importers of strawberries in the year 2020.
The United States ($303 Million), Germany ($156 Million), France ($82.4 Million), Netherlands ($82.3 Million), and Japan ($64.2 Million) had the most trading in the industry of strawberries.
The map below depicts the countries having more imports and exports in the world. Each country is particularly colored based on the volume of its imports and exports and how much each one weighs the other one.
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