When one form of food is transformed to another form of food involving industrial method to make it convenience food, that process is known as food processing. Fruits and vegetables are perishable in nature having shelf life less than a week if kept unrefrigerated condition. Also there are currently high post-harvest loss for fruits and vegetable due to lack of required storage condition and space constrain, hence it is highly desirable to process fruits to retain their shelf life and also to reduce the size of product which in turn reduces the cost on transportation of bulk fruit and storage area requirement.
One such product of fruit processing is fruit pulp. Fruit pulp solid mass obtained by extraction or pressing fruits or vegetables. Pulp is categorized basis their storage condition, i.e., in powder or liquid form. In liquid form they can be used as either brine, syrup, or water form. Due to food preference of customer, frozen pulp is also in great demand as all inbuild nutrition are retained. In view of this Fruits and Vegetables Pulping Units will be established in Multan, Khanewal and Muzaffargarh. Mango and guava will be majorly processed in the respective units.
