Mushroom Processing Plant
Mushroom is a nutritious vegetarian delicacy and has many varieties. It contains many vitamins and minerals but is low on sugar and fat.It can be grown in artificially created and controlled environment. It needs a temperature between 20 and 30 C and a relative humidity of 55 to 75%. It can be ideally grown in hilly areas or in in artificially controlled sheds in plains. Fresh mushrooms can be readily sold in market or processed and dried. There are two main varieties of mushroom Button type or the oysters’ variety. Oyster mushrooms are easy to cultivate and process and do not require huge investment.
The Latest trends in drying technology are combination treatments of high temperature flash
drying of product having high moisture, followed by closed hot air cross flow drying or
vacuum drying /Microwave drying/freeze drying. The technology selected for premier
Mushrooms is extractions of soluble solids vacuum concentration (5 fold foaming of
concentrate) and Vacuum drying (Powder concentrate with 5 per cent moisture).