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Fruit and vegetable processing

Juice pressing and bottling, drying, freeze-drying and jam making.

Public pressing dates and products (in Czech)

Basic information

About the plant

The juice press is housed in a separate single-storey building of the pavilion next to the Demonstration and Experimental Field. Its capacity is about 2,000 kg of fruit or vegetables. It mostly presses apples and pears, but the line can also handle other fruit and vegetables, above all carrots and beetroot.

On the 2nd floor, fruit and vegetables are dried and freeze-dried (also suitable for meat) and single and mixed fruit jams are made.

How we do it

The fruit is first washed and checked by the operators, who remove rotten fruit and debris such as leaves. The crushed fruit falls into a belt press with a capacity of up to 800 kg per hour. The raw juice is pumped into sedimentation tanks with conical bottoms; the next day the clear juice is pasteurised in a flow pasteuriser at 83 °C and filled into bag-in-boxes or glass bottles. Pasteurised juice protected from light keeps for more than a year.

Raw juice has a stronger taste and more vitamin C. It is sold on the day of pressing; store it below 5 °C and drink it within 5 days.

Craft products

Our products

Products from this unit are sold in the Um! shop.

**Apple - carrot juice 1l**
A mix of apple and carrot juices. Non-alcoholic drink, pasteurized.
Ingredients
(80% apple juice, 20% carrot juice). 1 liter

**Apple juice 330ml**
100% juice made from apples grown on the grounds of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. Country of origin: Czech Republic. Non-alcoholic drink, pasteurized.
Ingredients
100% apple juice. 330 ml

**Apple - strawberry juice 1l**
A mix of apple and strawberry juices. Non-alcoholic drink, pasteurized.
Ingredients
(70% apple juice, 30% strawberry juice). 1 liter

**Apple - ginger juice 1l**
A mix of apple and ginger juices. Non-alcoholic drink, pasteurized.
Ingredients
apple juice 99.7%, ginger extract 0.3%. 1 liter

**Winter apple juice 1l**
Non-alcoholic drink, pasteurized.
Ingredients
apple juice 99%, spice mix 1% (cinnamon, orange peel, star anise, cloves, lemon peel, ground juniper, anise). 1 liter

**Apple - pear juice**
100% juice made from apples and pears grown on the grounds of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. Country of origin: Czech Republic. Non-alcoholic drink, pasteurized.
Ingredients
blend of apple and pear juices (70% apple juice, 30% pear juice). Volume: 330 ml

**Apple - strawberry juice 330ml**
A mix of apple and strawberry juices. Non-alcoholic drink, pasteurized.
Ingredients
(70% apple juice, 30% strawberry juice). 330 ml

**Apple - watermelon juice 330 ml**
100% juice made from apples and watermelon grown on the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. Country of origin: Czech Republic. Non-alcoholic drink, pasteurized.
Ingredients
a mix of apple and watermelon juices (70% apple juice, 30% watermelon juice). 330 ml

**Apple - carrot juice 330 ml**
A mix of apple and carrot juices. Non-alcoholic drink, pasteurized.
Ingredients
(80% apple juice, 20% carrot juice). 330 ml

**Apple - plum juice 330 ml**
100% juice made from apples and plums grown on the grounds of the Czech University of Life Sciences. Country of origin: Czech Republic.
Ingredients
a blend of apple and plum juices (80% apple juice, 20% plum juice). 330 ml

**Apple - cherry juice 330 ml**
100% juice made from apples and cherries grown on the grounds of the Czech University of Life Sciences. Country of origin: Czech Republic.
Ingredients
a mix of apple and cherry juices (70% apple juice, 30% cherry juice). 330 ml

**Apple juice with ginger 330 ml**
Apple juice with ginger made from apples grown on the grounds of the Czech University of Life Sciences. Non-alcoholic drink, pasteurized.
Ingredients
apple juice 99.7%, ginger extract 0.3%. 330 ml

**Salted potato chips**
Fried salted potato chips. Package weight: 100 g.
Ingredients
potatoes, 35% rapeseed oil, 1.5% salt

**Bacon potato chips**
Fried bacon potato chips. Package weight: 100 g.
Ingredients
potatoes, rapeseed oil, seasoning mix 6% (maltodextrin, flavoring agents, garlic, onion, natural colour: paprika extract, acidity regulator: citric acid, smoke flavor).

**Paprika potato chips**
Fried potato chips with paprika. Package weight: 100 g.
Ingredients
potatoes, rapeseed oil, seasoning mix 6% (dextrose, salt, spice mix and their extracts: paprika 15%, garlic, onion, chili, natural flavor, acidity regulator: citric acid).

**Potato chips with ketchup flavor**
Fried potato chips with ketchup flavor. Package weight: 100 g.
Ingredients
potatoes, rapeseed oil, ketchup mix 6% (powdered sugar, salt, dried vegetables: tomato powder, flavoring, garlic, onion, coloring: paprika extract, citric acid, spice mix, vegetable oil, sucralose).

**Potato chips with beef and onion flavor**
Fried potato chips with beef and onion flavor. Package weight: 100 g.
Ingredients
potatoes, rapeseed oil, seasoning mix 6% (dehydrated vegetables: onion, garlic, parsley, salt, dextrose, natural flavor).

**Celery chips**
Fried celery chips salted. Package weight: 100 g.
Ingredients
CELERY, rapeseed oil, salt 1.5%.

**BBQ potato chips**
Fried potato chips BBQ. Package weight: 100 g.
Ingredients
potatoes, rapeseed oil, seasoning mix 6% (powdered sugar, flavoring, salt, dried vegetables: tomato powder, garlic, onion, corn hydrolyzate, spices: chili paprika, smoked maltodextrin, citric acid).

**Potato chips with habanero - cheese flavor**
Fried potato chips with habanero - cheese flavor. Package weight: 100 g.
Ingredients
potatoes, rapeseed oil, seasoning mix 6% [dextrose, WHEY, salt, natural flavor, dried vegetables (onion, garlic), natural smoked maltodextrin flavor, spices: habanero 1.5%, chili extract, acidity regulators: citric acid, lactic acid, coloring: paprika extract, cheese flavor 3%].

**Sweet chilli chips**
Fried potato chips sweet chilli. Package weight: 100 g.
Ingredients
potatoes, rapeseed oil, seasoning mix 6%, [sugar, chilli 5%, spice and dehydrated vegetable mix (garlic, onion), flavoring, spice extracts, acidity regulator: citric acid, vegetable oil].

**Cheese chips**
Cheese - flavored fried potato chips. Package weight: 100 g.
Ingredients
potatoes, rapeseed oil, seasoning mix 6% (dextrose, WHEY, table salt, natural flavor, flavoring, dried MILK, acidity regulator: lactic acid, CHEESE powder 0.6%).

**Potato crackers with paprika flavor**
Fried potato crackers with paprika flavor. Package weight: 60 g.
Ingredients
crackers (potato starch 80%, dehydrated potatoes, table salt), rapeseed oil, seasoning mix 6% (dextrose, table salt, spice mix and their extracts: paprika 15%, garlic, onion, chili, natural flavor, acidity regulator: citric acid).

**Salted potato crackers**
Fried salted potato crackers. Package weight: 60 g.
Ingredients
crackers (potato starch 80%, dehydrated potatoes, salt), rapeseed oil, salt 0.5%.

**Freeze-dried banana slices**
Freeze-dried fruit. Package weight: 60 g.
Ingredients
freeze-dried banana slices.

**Freeze-dried apple slices**
Freeze-dried fruit. Package weight: 50 g.
Ingredients
dried apple slices without skin.

**Freeze-dried strawberry slices**
Freeze-dried fruit. Package weight: 20 g.
Ingredients
freeze-dried strawberry slices.

**Freeze-dried apricots**
Freeze-dried fruit. Package weight: 50 g.
Ingredients
freeze-dried apricots.

**Freeze-dried plums**
Freeze-dried fruit. Package weight: 50 g.
Ingredients
freeze-dried plums.

**Freeze-dried cherries**
Freeze-dried fruit. Package weight: 30 g.
Ingredients
freeze-dried cherries.

**Strawberry jam**
Extra Strawberry jam with reduced sugar. Pasteurized. Total sugar content is 33 g per 100 g. Made from 75 g of fruit per 100 g of the final product. Package weight: 300 g.
Ingredients
strawberries, sugar, gelling agent: pectins.

**Apricot jam**
Extra Apricot jam with reduced sugar. Pasteurized. Total sugar content 35 g per 100 g. Made from 75 g of fruit per 100 g of the final product. Package weight: 300 g.
Ingredients
apricots, sugar, gelling agent: pectins.

**Vegetable lečo**
Processed vegetables. Pasteurized. Package weight: 670 g.
Ingredients
pepper 40%, blanched tomatoes 40%, onion, rapeseed oil, salt.

**Spicy pickles "UM"**
Pasteurized vegetables in sweet and sour brine. Spicy product.
Ingredients
cucumbers, drinking water, fermented spirit vinegar, sugar, edible salt, onion, carrot, hot pepper, dill, spice extract. 395 g

**Pickles "UM"**
Pasteurized vegetables in a sweet and sour brine.
Ingredients
cucumbers, drinking water, fermented spirit vinegar, sugar, edible salt, carrots, onions, dill, spice extract. 650g

**Zelčo "UM"**
Processed mixed vegetables. Pasteurized.
Ingredients
white cabbage 50%, bell pepper 20%, carrot 10%, onion 10%, sugar, fermented spirit vinegar, rapeseed oil, edible salt, MUSTARD and coriander seeds. 650g

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