How to Make Dried Hawthorn/Dehydrate Hawthorn in a Dehydrator:

  Hawthorn is an edible plant with hard texture, thin flesh and sour taste in the seeds. Hawthorn has a certain regulatory effect on gastrointestinal function. Hawthorn is usually divided into dried hawthorn and fresh hawthorn. Dried hawthorn is made by slicing the hawthorn fruit and drying it in the air or in the oven. Dried hawthorn is rich in nutrients and contains almost all the nutrients of the fruit, especially the content of organic acids and vitamin C. Dried hawthorn is sweet and sour when soaked in water. The medicinal value of dried hawthorn is also very high, and it has long been regarded as a kind of medicine.

How to dry hawthorn/Method of drying hawthorn:

  There are two ways to dry hawthorn. One is what we all know, to dry hawthorn in the sun,Another way is to use a Dehydrator.

To dry hawthorn in the sun:

1. Selecting Hawthorn: When the Hawthorn matures, you can pick them by yourself, or you can choose and buy the hawthorn, and it is required that the hawthorn is not damaged, full in size, and free from the influence of pests and diseases.
2. Clean: Pick out fresh hawthorn and wash it in clear water, and wash it at least 2-3 times until it is clean. Take it out after washing, and then put it in a well-ventilated place to control the moisture.
3. Slice and remove seeds: Cut the hawthorn into 3-4 pieces, the bigger hawthorn can be cut into 4 pieces, and the smaller hawthorn can be cut into 3 pieces. Be careful when cutting, so as not to hurt your hands. The middle petal will contain hawthorn seeds, which can be kept or removed by hand or chopsticks.
4. Drying in the air: If there are bamboo sticks at home, you can put them on the bamboo sticks, tie them up, and put them in a cool place for drying. You can also prepare a big container, put hawthorn on it one by one, and turn it irregularly, turning it once in half a day at first, and then turning it once a day. After drying, you can collect it and eat it slowly.

To dry hawthorn of a dehydrator:

1. Collect and clean slices. Harvesting hawthorn in autumn when it matures, washing and enucleating, and then slicing, the slice thickness depends on your own needs, generally about 3mm.
2. Tile the sliced hawthorn in the tray, and then push it to the drying room.
3. Intelligent drying. Set the temperature and humidity time on the intelligent control panel, which is 50℃ in one stage, and the drying time is 4 hours so that the moisture slowly comes out from inside to outside. Set the temperature at 55-60℃ in the second stage and dry for 10 hours, so that the moisture of hawthorn is rapidly reduced. The three-stage temperature was set at 65℃ for 2 hours, which reduced the moisture content of hawthorn from 80% to 13%. The moisture content of hawthorn can be changed according to one's own needs, thus changing the drying process.
4. Packaging and preservation. After the machine stops, wait for 5 minutes, open the drying room and wait for the temperature of hawthorn to be suitable for packaging and storage.

How to store dried hawthorn:

1. The most common way to preserve fresh dried hawthorn in life is to put the dried hawthorn in a sealed bag or bottle, which can generally be preserved for more than 6 months. However, it is necessary to pay attention to the dried hawthorn. To avoid deterioration due to dampness, it is necessary to add desiccant to preserve it. In addition, it is necessary to take out the dried hawthorn from time to time when the weather is fine.
2. Dry hawthorn slices are easy to be eaten by insects in summer. If you want to keep them at low temperatures, you can put them in a sealed bag and refrigerate them in a refrigerator, which will not cause insects. After being refrigerated in the refrigerator, it is often taken out and dried, which can be stored for a long time and is not easy to deteriorate.
3. Put it in a plastic sealed bag after drying or drying at high temperature.
4. After fumigating and killing insects, keep them in sealed condition.
5. Nitrogen filling and storage.

How to dry hawthorn on a large scale:

  Hawthorn grows and distributes in a wide range all over the world, and its yield is large. Therefore, a lot of dried hawthorn has become a common form. However, ordinary equipment cannot meet the huge demand for hawthorn drying, and professional dehydration equipment is required for drying, and professional equipment is used for large-scale production.
  Baixin Machinery is a manufacturer specializing in the production of dryers. It has 20 years of rich experience. For hawthorn drying, it has professional drying equipment and mature drying technology to ensure the perfect drying effect.

  The most popular hawthorn dryers of Baixin Machinery are heat pump dryers and continuous mesh belt dryers. I will introduce these two dryers in detail for you:

1:The first method:hawthorn heat pump dryer

Commercial 100-3000kg/h large amount of dehydration wide application and easy operation
  Heat pump drying machine use the principle of inverse Carnot cycle. It absorbs low-temperature heat energy in the air, which becomes high-temperature heat energy after efficient heat collection and integration by the heat pump system, and is transported to the drying room for cyclic heating and drying of materials.It refers to exhausting the hot and humid air in the drying room directly to the outside of the drying room through dehumidification device, and then replenishing natural fresh air.

  Hot air circle drying machine belongs to high temperature heat pump unit. Its working principle is: the working fluid of the heat pump is compressed by the compressor, becomes high temperature and high pressure gas, enters the condenser, condenses and liquefies the heat, and is used for air heating in the drying room. The moisture in the material is vaporized and evaporated by the form of hot air, and the evaporated water vapor is discharged by the moisture discharge system, thereby achieving the purpose of drying the drying material.

2:The second method: hawthorn continuous mesh belt drying machine

Large amount of dehydration 200-5000kg/h hawthorn drying machine continuous automatic work easy operation
  hawthorn dryer machine is a kind of continuous production drying equipment, the main heating way has electric heating, steam heating, hot air heating. Its main working principle is to spread the material evenly in the network. The material is moved in the dryer by the operation of the machine, and the hot air draws out the water vapor of the material. so as to achieve the purpose of drying.
  The operation temperature is 40-120 degree centigrade. And the dry cycle is 1-5 hours.

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