The well-known attributes of kiwi fruit include the green colour, characteristic flavour and nutritional components. These are
unmatched and have ensured that the fruit has established and maintained a position in the consumer's mind as a highly desirable quality product.
Product Specification of Frozen Green Kiwifruit Puree
| Raw Material: | | Ripe Kiwifruit of sufficient brix and quality. |
| Appearance: | | Typical of green Kiwifruit. |
| Flavour/Aroma: | | Typical Kiwifruit flavour and aroma for the green variety. |
| Code: | | KFSP08 |
| Coding: | | Best Before Date = 2 years from production date. |
| Processing: | | Kiwifruit are peeled, unwanted material removed, graded and mechanically pureed. |
| Soluble Solids: | | Minimum 11° brix, maximum 17° brix. |
| Micro-biological: | | Total plate count <100,000 / g
Total Coliform <100 / g
E-coli not detected
Yeats & Moulds <10,000 / g |
| Storage/Shipment: | | Stored and shipped at < -18° Centigrade |
| Packaging: | | 12kg polylined cartoned, stamped with product name, date of processing, weight, name and address of processor. |
Nutritional Breakdown of Kiwi Fruit Juice
Analysis of a 200ml drink sample containing 33% kiwifruit juice puree yields approximately:
| | • Soluble solids: 21g |
| | • Carbohydrates: 20g |
| | • Protein: 330g |
| | • Total dietary fibre: 290mg |
| | • Plant lipids: 47mg |
| | • Calcium: 0.8mg |
| | • Phosphorus: 7.3mg |
| | • Iron: 0.9mg |
| | • Sodium: 14.7mg |
| | • Potassium: 195.8mg |
| | • Vitamin C: 75.6mg |
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| pH: | 3 |
| Specific Gravity @ 20 deg C: | 1.06 |
| Acidity (as Citric acid): | 0.93g |
| Energy: | 339.0 Kilojoules (81 calories) |
A Kiwi A Day purees and fruit juice concentrate contain no artifical flavouring, colouring or preserving agents and have not been heat treated.
These products therefore retain almost the same nutritional value as the raw fruit. As well as retaining the fruit's natural flavour and green colour
it is high in dietary fibre, vitamin C, potassium, vitamin E, and available sugars but is low in fat, cholesterol, starch, sodium and calories.
Carbohydrate sweeteners in the form of fructose and glucose are added to the fruit juice concentrate. More »
