How Are Carrots Processed for Shipping?

As a nutritious and popular vegetable, carrots are widely used in many fields such as home cooking, food processing and fresh food distribution. Because they grow in the soil, they are usually attached to a lot of dirt and impurities when harvested. If they are transported directly, it will not only increase the transportation weight and pollute the transportation tools, but also easily cause the carrots to rot or be damaged in appearance, thus affecting sales. So how are carrots processed for shipping? Before entering the transportation link, carrots usually need to go through a key pre-treatment process - washing.

The main purpose of carrot washing is to remove surface dirt and other impurities. This process not only improves the appearance of carrots, making them more attractive in the market, but also effectively prolongs their storage and preservation time. In addition, washed carrots are neater during transportation, reducing losses caused by cross contamination or dirt accumulation, and facilitating subsequent grading, packaging and sales operations.

The main equipment for carrot cleaning - carrot cleaning machine

In modern agricultural production, most farms and processing companies use professional carrot cleaning machines to complete this process. This equipment has a reasonable design and compact structure. It is mainly composed of a feed inlet, a drum brushing system, a spray system and a discharge channel.

The cleaning process is usually as follows:

Preliminary sorting: Before placing carrots with a lot of dirt into the cleaning machine, they are first screened manually or mechanically to remove broken and rotten individuals.

Brushing to remove dirt: After the carrots enter the cleaning machine, they are constantly tumbled under the action of rotating drums and soft brushes, while high-pressure water flows from multiple angles to completely remove the mud and impurities on the surface of the carrots.

Rinsing and conveying: Some equipment has a multi-stage cleaning system, which is rinsed after rough washing to ensure cleanliness. The carrots are then conveyed to the next process, such as grading or packaging lines.

After cleaning, carrots have the following obvious advantages:

Lighter weight, lower transportation costs;

Clean appearance, higher commodity value;

Lower spoilage rate, longer shelf life;

Improve mechanized sorting efficiency, facilitating subsequent packaging and sales.