Dehydrated Tomato Powder Pure Tomato Powder

The moisture content of tomatoes is quite high, as high as about 95%. Few other fruits and vegetables have such a high moisture content. Therefore, for every tomato with a dry weight of 1kg, it must pack, transport and store about 19kg of moisture. . For consumers, for every 1kg of tomatoes they buy, they have to bear the cost of about 19kg of water. If the tomatoes are processed into tomato powder, the cost of packaging, transportation, storage and consumption can be greatly saved. Although tomato concentrates such as tomato paste have 3/4 or more of the moisture removed, it still has 2-3 kg of moisture per kg dry weight of tomato. In addition, as the tomato concentrate product has a higher solid content, its consistency becomes larger and larger. Therefore, it is very difficult to further reduce the moisture by evaporation at the later stage, resulting in waste of heat and increased product cost. And when the tomato pulp is concentrated later, because it contains cellulose and othe…