During evaporation much of the aroma (or essence) is stripped from the juice as it is being concentrated. It is generally desired to recover a high quality (little damage from heat or oxidation) essence fraction. Essence is considered to be those naturally occurring compounds which form the fraction lighter than water vapor (Some of the […]

HISTORY Commercial evaporation of orange juice began in the late 1940’s. The first evaporators, to produce a product to be reconstituted and used as orange juice, were low temperature-high vacuum evaporators designed and built by B.C. Skinner of Dunedin, Florida. There were several evaporators built on this basis (Frostproof, Auburndale, Dunedin). As operational experience was […]