Juice & Puree Production
Did extraction fall, or did the fruit carry less to extract?
Specialized processes are scoped against the plant’s actual material flows and data.
Fruit receiving
Sorting and washing
Sorting rejects
Extraction
Pomace, seed and skin
Finishing
Residual pulp
Concentration
Evaporated water
Filling
Tank heels often unrecorded
How to read the process maps
- Saleable output
- Saleable byproduct
- Moisture or process mass change
- Documented loss
- Often unresolved
Extraction efficiency is the central figure in juice and puree work, and it is routinely misread when measured by volume or finished weight alone. Fruit variety, maturity, firmness and soluble solids all shift how much product a tonne can give. A finished weight says little until it is put against the solids that came in, which is why many operations track kilograms of soluble solids recovered per tonne of fruit.
Pulp recovery brings its own trade-off. Tighter finisher settings and additional pressing can raise recovery, while also changing pulp content, viscosity, colour and flavour. Product must still sit within its specification. Separately, concentration removes water by design, so a large mass change at the evaporator is correct behaviour. Without a solids basis it looks like the largest loss in the plant.
Every Processing Environment Has Its Own Economics.
Yieldstem’s approach begins with understanding your material flows, quality constraints, and operational data—not applying a generic yield target to every production line.