Microwave Technology Sterilizes Sweet Potato Puree
North Carolina farmers successfully commercialize aseptic production of non-acidified sweet potato puree using continuous microwave processing.
Several North Carolinian organizations representing industry, academia, and government researchers have collaborated to produce a low-acid, shelf-stable food product using continuous fl ow microwave technology. What they discovered is that the aseptic sweet potato puree product from a newly built facility demonstrated superior quality characteristics when compared with purees processed on other commercially available systems.
Industrial Microwave Systems (IMS), Morrisville, N.C., was formed to de…
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