Frontline Food Consultants and Engineers assist you in the entire manufacturing, processing and commercialization of macadamia nuts and other allied nuts including almonds, cashew nuts and walnuts with value-added units. Enhanced Process Optimization and Nut Processing Services let your roasted, salted or flavored nuts have the right appearance and enhanced texture and taste. On the other hand, we focus on how to effectively toast and flavor the nut as much as possible, and how to optimize its flavor retention period.

Our services of Macadamia Processing Consultantation beginning with Ingredient Sourcing and Quality Assurance ensure that we acquire the very best nuts right up to the processing stage. It is our challenge to create new and additional products with you, including flavored or spiced nuts, and pre-coated nuts for both the ‘on the go’ healthy consumer and confectionery segment. Moreover, our Regulatory Compliance Services assist with compliance of your products with food safety laws and regulations or with labeling laws particular to the management of allergens. These Custom Packaging Solutions help to maintain the nuts fresh and tasty and provide them with green and convenient packs.

What are macadamia and other nuts? 

The production of Macadamia and other nuts, almonds, cashews, pistachios, and walnuts are in roasted, flavored, or coated products for storage and packing. These nuts are endowed with a tasty taste, optional fatty acid, and protein content. Packs of nuts are presented they are natural, roasted, plain or spiced with spices or salt, honeyed, chocolate coated, and so on making different handy snack foods for the 

consumers.

Other tools employed in nuts production include macadamia and others which are industrial roasters that are considered while roasting while dryers are used for moisture control. The seasoning drums allow correct coverage of spices, flavor, or salt on the nuts, and the cooling systems help to cool the nuts in order to pack them in the shortest time possible so that they remain crunchy. The weigh and portioning machines are crucial for making products of correct weights, and the filling and sealing machines are crucial as well as they provide the correct closure of the PP bags in order to preserve the freshness of nuts. It is also managed by metal detectors as well as Quality control systems for identifying anything, whether an inclusion or a contaminant, that may be present in each produced batch.

Classification of packed and Processed Nuts

  • Roasted Macadamia Nuts: Also raw, dry or roasted with oil for a rough layer or surface and with or without ground salt.
  • Salted Almonds: Nutty snacks lightly salted and roasted almonds are at the same time non-sweet companions with affordably high protein.
  • Spicy Cashews: The boiled cashews are baked in spice which has chili, turmeric and cumin; the spiciness of the nuts is more towards the Indian spices.
  • Honey-Coated Pecans: Salty nuts crunchy honey-glazed nuts designed to have a sweet honey coating procedure of roasting nuts to get a honey coat.
  • Pistachios: Usual pistachio roasted kernels with salt favored with or without the shells.

Packaging and Processing Packed and Other Macadamia & Other nuts

  1. Raw Nut Preparation
  • Sorting and Cleaning: Cocoa noir is washed through to remove anything else, bad beans, or any other undesirable substance. Nuts are washed through water or air wash system to ensure they receive them in a clean environment and also free from dust. These acknowledge that fine classification can be done either by hand or with the assistance of any number of systems in order that only the best quality nuts get to the next stage.
  • Blanching (Optional): In certain nuts especially almonds this process removes what is referred to as the outer skin. This entails just a very short washing of the nuts in hot water so as to ease the skinning operation and have good-looking nuts for the subsequent activity.
  1. Roasting
  • Dry Roasting: Nuts like macadamia, almonds, and cashews which are unsalted and unsweetened undergo dry roasting in industrial ovens at the optimum temperature of between 140- 160 degrees Celsius for -15-30minutes. They enable the seasoning by allowing the food to be roasted and dried without the addition of oil.
  • Oil Roasting: On the other hand, roasting in oil may make it taste better and the nuts, to be crunchier. Screaming nuts are seasoned with premium edible oil – peanut or sunflower oil and fried in 160-180°C until crispy, golden brown. Subsequently, for achieving desirable texture and appearance the de-oiling machines are used to remove the extra oil.
  • Roasting for Coated Nuts: That is why in case with honey-coated nuts or chocolate-coated almonds, the roasting is done before coating is done to ensure that the nuts remain as crisp and tasty as they should be.
  1. Seasoning and Coating
  • Spice and Salt Coating: Respective nuts reach seasoning drums in which salt, spices or other condiments are placed, on the nuts. For making chili cashews or masala almonds the spices employed are chili powder, cumin, turmeric and salt. The nuts are tumbled to ensure that spices cover them fairly well and evenly.
  • Honey or Sweet Coating: In sweet types, honey or sugar syrup is poured over the kernels Check out components for caramelized pecans and glazed pecans. These are then baked or roasted gently at a low heat until the outside layer actually turns crusty and caramelized.
  • Flavor Uniformity: Seasoning systems are made to be applied automatically to the appropriate degree of seasoning for every batch and preserve the quality and taste of the seasoning to every packet.
  1. Cooling and Packaging
  • Cooling Systems: They are then left to cool, and this is done by a conveyorized cool, or cooling tunnel within the company. This helps in the availability of product crunchiness and at the same time, it hinders the formation of condensation on the product in the process.
  • Packaging: These nuts are then packed using packing equipment which effectively seals the best nuts inside airtight and moisture-proof, bags or containers. Out of all the processes used in MAP or nitrogen flushing it gets rid of delay spoiling and any presence of oxygen prolonging the freshness of the nuts.

Packaging Techniques

This oriented packaging engineering approach is for packed and processed nuts that require packaging techniques in the form of engineering to accomplish the packaging goal.

  1. Vacuum-Sealed Packaging
  • Objective: The food has to be fresh and cannot come into contact with either air or moisture.
  • Materials: Multilayer plastic films that demonstrate excellent moisture and oxygen vapor permeability when used in polymeric films.
  • Benefits: There is vacuum packing to ensure that the nuts do not go soft, nor develop a rancid taste, as they are packed in a manner that they do not come into contact with air or moisture. This type of packaging particularly fits such products that take a long time before getting depleted or those that are to be sold in other countries.
  1. Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP).
  • Objective: Hence reduce the daily reversibility by as many units as will negate the effect of oxygen in the packaging atmosphere and replace it with other less reactive gases such as nitrogen.
  • Materials: High-barrier films which are particularly used in gaseous preservation, the films used are purged with nitrogen.
  • Benefits: MAP prevents oxidation which is always a big issue when it comes to products with high fat content like nuts. That is why MAP plays a good role in extending the shelf life and wonderful taste of the nuts where it can effectively do good in processing the product.
  1. Eco-friendly packaging solutions
  • Objective: Offer environmentally friendly product packaging solutions with equal effectiveness.
  • Materials: Plastic films that can be recycled and used again or paper pouches, biodegradable packaging materials.
  • Benefits: All these green solutions satisfy consumers’ need for environmentally-friendly packaging while at the same time protecting the product from some natural conditions such as humidity and exposure to air. They also lower the production environmental depredations as compared with other modes of production.