Plant-based Beverages

Humans have been making plant-based milk and other beverages for thousands of years. Plant-based beverages are becoming increasingly popular today, especially among consumers looking for alternatives to traditional dairy products and focusing on environmental sustainability. Popular plant-based beverages include oats, peas, soybeans, almonds, macadamia nuts, quinoa, rice, cashews, coconut, flax, and hemp.

High-temperature sterilization is a common method used in producing plant-based beverages to extend the product’s shelf life and ensure product safety.

Taste, quality, retaining as much of the nutritional content as possible, improving production efficiency, and reducing production costs are priority issues for manufacturers.

Compared with traditional batch retort sterilizers, Ousi continuous sterilizers have the following advantages:

•  It retains more nutritional content with faster heat penetration and shorter heating time.
•  The product is continuously stirred during sterilization and is heated more evenly, ensuring a consistent taste.
•  It seamlessly connects to the former filling and subsequent packaging processes to achieve fully automated production.
•  Significantly reduces energy consumption.

Like dairy products, plant-based beverages are usually packaged in HDPE/PP bottles, glass bottles, cans, and other containers. Ousi continuous sterilizers are suitable for these packaging types and can be customized according to production capacity.