Crucial Factors In Designing Cold Storages For Fruits & Vegetables

CRUCIAL FACTORS IN DESIGNING COLD STORAGES FOR FRUITS & VEGETABLES

FACTORS IN DESIGNING COLD STORAGE ●

Structure Of The Cooling Storage

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Managing Different Foods

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Temperature Requirements Of The Produce

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Specifications For Future Expansion

Structure Of The Cooling Storage All your produce variety may have different temperature, humidity, and compatibility requirements for long term storage. This is why your cold rooms should be designed with customizable options for temperature control, relative humidity control, air circulation, and maintenance of space between containers.

As for products that to be stored together, you must ensure the compatibility of each product with the other to avoid mixing incompatible products and cause undesirable color, flavor, and texture changes.

For example, foods that have high ethylene content such as ripe bananas and apples can cause degrading changes in foods that are sensitive to ethylene such as lettuce, cucumbers, carrots, potatoes, etc.

Temperature Requirements Of The Produce To avoid any degradation in the quality of food products cause due to temperature incompatibility, commonly stored fruits, and vegetables have been assigned standard temperature levels where: ● ● ●

Foods like apple, grape, carrot, etc. that are easily perishable are to be stored at 0-4°C. Ripped produce such as mango, orange, potatoes, tomatoes, etc. that are moderately sensitive to cold are stored at 4-8°C. Produces that aren’t easily perishable but sensitive to cold such as pineapple, banana, pumpkin, ladyfingers, etc. are stored at temperatures higher than 8°C.

Specifications For Future Expansion The products and quantities that you’re dealing with now will increase with the expansion of your company. Hence, your cold storage design must also consider the future aspects of your business beforehand.

Here are some specifications you must consider while designing a future-ready cold warehouse: ● ● ● ● ● ●

Nature of the current and future products Frequency of loading and unloading The schedule for harvest and dispatch The daily tonnage of produce that may be handled The daily tonnage of ice required Nature and size of future packages

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