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By processing fruits and vegetables, it is possible to obtain a wide variety of products, and what is common to all of them as a mandatory phase of the production process is the use of machines for shredding fruits and vegetables. Shredding fruits and vegetables, grinding fruits and vegetables, or mashing fruits and vegetables is done by machines designed to facilitate the processing of large quantities of fruits, and before you invest in your first machine or buy another one you need for even more efficient production, you should know a few things.

Although many people think that whole fruits and vegetables are used in the production of juice, this is not always the case, on the contrary. Most fruits must be shredded, ground or mashed before squeezing the juice, which requires the use of special machines for grinding and mashing.

Jam is a product of suitable gelled consistency, produced from sugar, fruit pulp, and/or fruit mash/purée obtained from one or more types of fruit and water, which are cooked at a temperature of 103-104 °C until the gelatinous structure is established.

The ripeness of fruits and vegetables is determined depending on whether they will be used for consumption, fresh storage, or further processing, by applying the criteria for selecting the degree of ripeness for each type of fruit and vegetable, bearing in mind that the process of growth, maturity and ripening differs for each of them and manifests differently in terms of the properties of fruits and vegetables.