Vexcel Upkram Pvt. Ltd.

Our Integrated Agro Processing Unit, set-up in the Tribal belt of Eastern India is designed to produce Dehydrated Agri-Products, Pulp Juice Concentrates, Essential Oils & Natural Colours. 

Designed and manufactured in assistance with experts and scientists both from the fields of Mechanical & Food Sciences, our Dehydration Units is like none other as it built by us from scratch. 

Our unit has been designed for:

Machine Dehydration of SPICES, 

Machine Dehydration of VEGETABLES like: 

                Leafy Vegetables : Spinach & Mustard Greens, 

                Carrot, Cabbage Capsicum Bitter Gourd Machine 

Dehydration of Jackfruit (high medicinal value)

Machine Dehydration of Gooseberry (high medicinal value)

Extraction of Natural Colours from flowers (by the use certified exclusive patented technology): Saffron and Blue

Extraction of Essential Oils 

Dehydrated Products:

Dehydration removes the moisture from the food so that bacteria, yeast and mold cannot grow and spoil the food. As a large share of moisture has been removed, the food becomes smaller and lighter in weight. When the food needs to be used, the water is added back, and the food returns to its original shape. 

Both the terms ‘Drying’ and ‘Dehydration’ mean the removal of water. The practice of drying or dehydrating of foodstuffs for preserving them is very old. The former term (drying) is generally used for processing under the influence of non-conventional and uncontrolled energy sources like sun and wind. Dehydration on the other hand, means the process of removal of moisture by the application of artificial heat under controlled conditions of temperature, humidity and air flow. 

Drying or dehydration removes biologically active water thus stopping the growth of microorganism. This also results in reduced rate of enzyme activity and chemical reactions. 

We emphasize the term ‘DEHYDRATED’ for our products because unlike the conventionally practiced open sun-drying, we use specialised Hot-Air Machines to process our products. The chief advantages of our machine dehydrated products are:

Retention of Aroma, Taste & Medicinal-Properties present as Volatile Oil Content – Our Air Dehydrating Machines are designed to extract only the water content from Agro products whereas sun-drying on the other hand is an unregulated process and results in loss of Volatile Oil and thus it’s Aroma, Taste & medicinal properties 

Microbe/Contaminant Free Product – Absence of micro-organisms growths and contaminations like Poly-Cyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH), Salmonella, Aflatoxin etc. is another reason why our products are highly valuable, clean, pure and unique when compared to products dried using alternate and conventional methods, where the adopted process may assist in growth of life threatening microbes & harmful contaminations.

Heavy Metals – Presence of Heavy Metals in the form of pollution in the atmosphere, no matter which country/state/location, are a common occurring in today’s times and to dry a product which has been largely been processed in these conditions will result in the contamination of the product which is not safe for consumption. Our Hot Air Dehydrating Machines use filtered air to remove moisture content of the products eliminating any chance of such an occurring. 

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) – PAH’s are carcinogenic compounds which have become increasingly common on dried products. This is due to the fact that processors that resort to expedited drying by the help of fire or other such methods generate carbon compounds that settle on the products causing PAH growth. Dehydrating inside Hot Air Machines eliminates the chances of such an occurring as it uses filtered air only.

Rehydration & longer shelf life – Dehydrated food can be reconstituted. Once reconstituted, these products are treated as fresh, to reconstitute just add water and soak until the desired volume is restored. Hence, these products can thus be used as required either in their Dehydrated, Powdered or retainable fresh form. As the excess water has been removed, the enzymatic process and further aging of the products slows down, thereby elongating their shelf life.

Economic Viability – Our products are economically more viable as-well, one may compare the price of our product to a Sun Dried crop which have far lesser flavour, taste and medicinal benefits. Hence for every Kilogram of Sun-dried product currently being used – a lesser quantity of our dehydrated products may be used to achieve the same flavour, taste and/or medicinal benefits. 

CONCENTRATES FROM PULPS:

Pulp concentrates a merely pastes of a pulp bearing product, from which all the excess water content has been removed, which increases it’s shelf life and yields a product which packs more flavour and minimal water. Our pulp concentrate manufacturing line, has been designed to yield a concentrated product of upto 85 Brix and having a unique flowability (bearing Bostwick Consistency of 15) in it which is not found in other similar products available in the market.

 NATURAL COLORS FROM FLOWERS:

Food colorants continue to remain a grey area in the field of culinary arts till date and there are very few safe options in the market today. We have developed a process to extract colours from flowers, having high medicinal benefits. This extraction process is free from chemicals and the products are completely safe for consumption. 

ESSENTIAL OILS:

We have set-up a highly specialised Essential Oil extracting line, which is designed to extract oils from the lowest yielding crops like Ginger as well. Essential Oils from fresh agro produce are extracted by the process of Steam-Distillation by us. We are currently supply  Essential Oils from Lemon Grass, Ginger, Turmeric, Eucalyptus, Palma Rosa, Peppermint & Spearmint.