today on how it's made frozen fruit
0:27yes
0:36world nowadays you don't have to wait for your favorite fruit to be in season
0:44you can buy it year round in the freezer section at your local supermarket
0:48frozen fruit is useful to have on hand for baking
0:52for making fruit sellers or smoothies to use as a topping
0:56or to eat as a healthy snack pro
1:03timing is everything for example strawberries 1 sold fresh
1:08are picked well before the ride so they won't spoil before reaching store
1:12shelves as much as a week later
1:14but if the berries are for the freezer section they're harvested when fully
1:18ripe
1:19that stealer perfection will be frozen in time within 36 hours
1:23for workers pick the berries by hand and trim them right in the field with one
1:28swipe over sharp stainless steel blade
1:30you
1:35yo within 90 minutes apart listing
1:38the strawberries are on their way by refrigerated trucks
1:42to the nearby processing plant for cleaning sorting
1:45and quick freezing
1:50first up on the processing line
1:51a bath and freshwater to remove fielder this will gently submerges every last
1:57strawberry
1:58then a shower and clean rinse water
2:03followed by a spray France with highly chlorinated water
2:09to sanitize the very simple
2:14next eagle-eyed workers pick out and discard any bruised or underwrite Barrys
2:19that the rest receive a final rinse in route to the freezing ton of temperature
2:24-34 degrees Fahrenheit for the cooling coils contain liquid ammonia
2:31a refrigerant commonly use for industrial-scale freezing
2:34yo inside the tunnel
2:38with the frigid air circulates at high speed the berries freeze in about 20
2:42minutes
2:43upon exiting the right through sorting machines
2:46the smaller very struck through narrow gaps between the rollers near the top
2:51the medium size ones through wider gap part way down
2:54while the larger ones continue to the bottom these peaches
2:59also hand picked one right go through the same cleaning process says the
3:03strawberries
3:04first a bath then a shower
3:08then a sanitizing rinse with chlorinated water
3:12after workers pick out leaves
3:16twigs in any less than perfect fruit a sorting machine source to pieces by size
3:21small medium and large sending each size two separate conveyor belt
3:26each felt leads to a different lineup stainless steel penny machines
3:31adjusted for the sizeof the incoming fruit cool
3:37first the machine places the peaches stem down
3:44next a knife cuts the peach in half along its natural line
3:47then mechanical jobs grab the stone inside
3:51and dislodge it by twisting the two halves at the peach in opposite
3:55directions
3:56each machine cupid 90 pages per minute
3:59so the only way to see that action is in slow motion
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4:08all the peach jam sandstones coming out of the pillars
4:11tumble onto a vibrating conveyor well the stones fall through the holes while
4:17the peaches
4:18larger than the polls continue on compare flex-time cut side up
4:25so that workers can inspect and remove any stone fragments
4:36the next conveyor gradually lines them up in single file
4:39to enter the slicing machines slicer plates cut each half into four to six
4:45pieces
4:46depending on what format the customer order a
4:51then the slices go into the freezing Tom
4:55peach slices take slightly longer than strawberries to freeze
4:59about 25 minutes to prevent the frozen from from defrosting
5:04the air temperature in the packaging area is a frigid 39 degrees Fahrenheit
5:08been automated scale weighs out the per package quantity:
5:14then drops to berry's into a retail bank
5:21the machine then he seals to back
5:24and deposited on the final conveyor which goes to the free shipping freezer
5:28only 15 minutes have passed since the fruit was frozen
5:32and just 24 hours since it was field pics below