Lime oil & juice
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and for the boiler to be fuelled with solid fuel (in an emergency).
When a high percentage of yellow limes are being delivered to the factory each day, it is
important to crush them on the day they arrive, as they very soon spoil and give rise to losses.
It is therefore, of great importance that your crusher can work continuously.
Reference and further reading
Practical Action Technical Briefs (Juices)
Mixed fruit juice manufacture
Lime juice
Lime cordial
Nas naran lime juice
Passion fruit juice
Minor Oil Crops FAO Agricultural Services Bulletin 94, B. Axtell, FAO,1992
Essential oil distillation Food chain No 24, Practical Action, 1999
Quality Control of Essential Oils: Series on Aromatic Plants of Sri Lanka Booklet No 4, Ceylon
Institute of Scientific & Industrial Research (CISIR), 1981
Principles and practices of small and medium-scale fruit juice processing. FAO Agricultural
Services Bulletin 146, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),
(2001).
Technical manual on small-scale processing of fruits and vegetables, Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Setting up and Running a Small Fruit or Vegetable Processing Enterprise: Opportunities in
Food Processing CTA
Starting a Small Food Processing Enterprise by Peter Fellows, Ernesto Franco & Walter Rios
Practical Action Publishing/CTA 1996
Small Scale Food Processing 2nd Ed. P Fellows & S Azam Ali, Practical Action Publishing, 2003
Fruit and Vegetable Processing UNIFEM Practical Action Publishing, 1993
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