Vacuum Packing Fruit and Vegetables
Extend freshness and reduce spoilage while retaining all essential nutritional value. Vacuum packing protects the natural taste, texture, and nutrients of fruits and vegetables, ensuring high-quality produce that lasts longer and stays vibrant.
Freshly Packed for Lasting Quality
Vacuum packing fruit and vegetables – with or without preservative gas – helps maintain peak freshness and significantly extend shelf life. Beyond simple preservation, this process locks in flavor, optimizes nutritional value, and allows for efficient storage. Vacuum sealing is essential for delivering healthy, great-tasting produce.
Note: For best results, only vacuum pack fruits and vegetables from the same category together, as mixing different types may affect product quality.
Which fruits and vegetables can be vacuum packed?
Leafy Vegetables
Extend the freshness of leafy greens like spinach, kale, and endive with preservative gas sealing. This method helps maintain color, texture, and nutritional value while significantly increasing shelf life, making it ideal for commercial storage and distribution.
Vegetables
Hard vegetables can be vacuum sealed to extend shelf life and protect them from external factors such as moisture loss and contamination. For added convenience, they can also be sliced and gas sealed, ensuring freshness, quality, and ready-to-use preparation for food service and retail needs.
Fruit
Vacuum sealing is an effective way to professionally package a wide variety of fruits, preserving freshness and quality. For sliced fruit, the addition of preservative gas is recommended to further extend shelf life, maintain natural flavor, and reduce spoilage during storage and transport.
Bulky products like bags of potatoes or potato chips can be efficiently vacuum sealed to maintain freshness and protect against spoilage. For optimal results, we recommend using a deeper vacuum chamber to accommodate the product’s volume while ensuring a secure, tight seal.
Advantages of vacuum sealing fruit and vegetables
Longer shelf life
The lack of air in a vacuum package slows down the ripening process of fruit and vegetables. This gives products a longer shelf life and prevents waste.
Preservation of Freshness and Flavour
Vacuum packing removes air from the packaging, helping products retain their natural freshness, texture, and flavor. Moisture is sealed in, preventing dehydration and ensuring the product maintains its quality and taste throughout its shelf life.
Retention of Nutrients
Vacuum sealing fruit and vegetables protects against oxidation by eliminating oxygen exposure. This process helps preserve essential nutrients, including vitamins and minerals, ensuring your products maintain their nutritional value and freshness for longer.
Minimisation of Freezer Burn
Vacuum sealing fresh products before freezing greatly reduces the formation of ice crystals, helping to preserve texture and flavor. This process not only extends shelf life but also minimizes the risk of freezer burn, ensuring your products maintain their quality during long-term storage.
Convenient Portion Packaging
Vacuum sealing is an ideal solution for packaging portioned fruit. It provides immediate protection from external elements, preserves freshness, and extends shelf life, making it perfect for ready-to-serve or retail-ready portions.
