Processing equipment empowers the pepper industry

The name of pepper, first appeared in the "Book of Songs", Chinese people have a long history of using pepper. Zanthoxylum bungeanum is known as one of the "eight condiments", and is a commonly used cooking condiment in households and restaurants and an important raw material in the food processing industry. In addition to being used as a condiment, Sichuan pepper can also be used as medicine, which has the functions of warming, dehumidifying, dispelling cold, relieving pain and killing insects. Zanthoxylum bungeanum is widely distributed in my country, and can be seen in Northeast China, Jiangsu, Zhejiang coastal, southwest, and southeastern Tibet. Nowadays, the green peppercorns are all over the branches, green and dripping with pepper fragrance, full of the taste of a bumper harvest, and a new round of peppercorn picking has begun.

Relying on processing equipment such as dryers and color sorters, the prickly ash processing industry is developing in the direction of specialization, scale, standardization, industrialization, and branding, improving production capacity and quality, and effectively promoting the quality and efficiency of the prickly ash industry and helping poor farmers. Get rich out of poverty.

Fresh prickly ash is not easy to store, its flavor is easy to lose, and its fragrant odor and color will be significantly changed or even lost due to factors such as storage environment temperature, humidity, and ventilation. Drying is a common and traditional drying method for Chinese prickly ash. With the advancement of science and technology, various types of pepper drying machines have been invented, and pepper farmers no longer have to worry about drying pepper.

The color sorter plays an important role in promoting the quality and efficiency of Chinese prickly ash. The color sorter can automatically sort out the heterochromatic particles in the granular material by using the photoelectric detection technology according to the difference of the optical properties of the material. The freshly picked prickly ash fruits are generally mixed with some impurities, such as prickly ash leaves, twigs, thorns, etc. If they cannot be removed effectively, it will directly affect the quality and flavor of the product. The color sorter can remove these impurities. In addition, the inferior and unsatisfactory prickly ash particles can also be removed. Using a color sorter to classify Chinese prickly ash can greatly improve the added value of prickly ash.

Although the dryer can retain the flavor of Chinese prickly ash relatively completely, there is still a big gap between dried prickly ash and fresh prickly ash. So people invented the prickly ash preservation technology. The freshly picked Chinese prickly ash is washed to remove impurities, and then the washed prickly ash is blanched in hot water, and immediately put into cold water to cool down; then after the pre-cooling process, the prickly ash is quick-frozen, and the quick-freezing process can be locked. Live the flavor of Sichuan pepper, so that its taste is no different from fresh products; finally, the pepper is packaged in bags and refrigerated. Zanthoxylum bungeanum preservation technology can allow consumers to enjoy fresh Zanthoxylum bungeanum in any season, help Zanthoxylum bungeanum to be marketed at a staggered peak, and enhance the added value of Zanthoxylum bungeanum products.

Processing equipment such as dryers and color sorters, as well as fresh-keeping technology, have improved the added value of pepper products, and made the pepper industry develop in the direction of specialization, scale, standardization, industrialization, and branding. It is expected that more pepper processing equipment and processing technologies will be developed to improve the quality of pepper and benefit the society.