Dehydrated Red Onion products are widely used in varied food preparations wherever along with onion taste & flavor, onion’s appearance & texture is desired. It can be easily used in salads & other preparations / servings after re-dehydration It also used in soups, sauces, canned / dry / frozen food, salad dressings, meat products, other food products wherever onion flavor & taste desired’.
Red onion powder
Physical Properties
Taste / flavour : Fresh, aromatic & spicy, from mild to pungent, characteristic of onion Odour : Typical, mild to pungent, according to species, free from foreign odour. Colour : Red Foreign Matter : Absent – This includes any foreign matter like glass, insects, wood pieces, paper, metal, Impurities or any other Contaminants
Total plate count : Max 1,50,000 /g Coliform germs : Max 10 / g E-Coli : Negative in 1 g Yeast & mould : Max.100 / g Salmonella : Negative in 25 g Bacillus cereus : Max 10 / g Staphylococcus Aureus : Negative in 1 g
Red onion kibbled
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
MOISTURE CONTENT
7% max
HOT WATER INSOLUBLE
20% max
ASH CONTENT
4% max
ACID INSOLUBLE ASH
0.5% max
MAJOR DEFECTS
1 % max
FOREIGN MATTER
NIL
MICROBIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
T.P.C.
<300,000/GM
COLIFORMS
<1000/GM
E.COLI
<10/GM
MOLDS & YEASTS
<1000/G
STAPH.AUREUS
<100/G
B.CEREUS
<100/G
SALMONELLA
NIL/25 G
PROCESSING METHOD
Mature, fresh Red onions are washed, trimmed, cut and dehydrated by passing Hot Air Closed Continuous System.
ORGANOLETIC PROPERTIES
COLOUR:
Onion Kibbled Pure red to Slightly off red
TASTE :
Typical of fresh Red onions
AROMA:
Typical of fresh Red onions