• Apples are an important ingredient in many winter desserts, for example apple pie, apple crumble, apple crisp and apple cake. They are often eaten baked or stewed, and they can also be dried and eaten or re-constituted (soaked in water, alcohol or some other liquid) for later use. Puréed apples are generally known as apple sauce. Apples are also made into apple butter and apple jelly. They are also used cooked in meat dishes.
• The apple slice industry is based on familiar varieties such as Jonathan, Idared, Golden Delicious, and Northern Spy. Many new apple varieties and advanced selections may have potential for use in processing as apple slices.
• Ethylene-forming enzyme (EFE) was isolated from apple fruit tissue. The enzyme activity in the homogenate is associated with the pellet fraction and can be solubilized with Triton X-100 or polyvinylpolypyrrolidone.
• Citrus albedo and apple pomace are rich in pectic substances and important raw materials for pectin production all around the world. Pectin is widely used as a functional ingredient in the food industry due to its ability to form aqueous gels and has been used in jams and jellies, fruit preparations, fruit drink concentrates, fruit juice, desserts and fermented dairy products
• At present there are 25 apple producing countries in the world who lend a significant contribution to the global trade in fresh apple and processed apple products. These countries are categorised in three major global regions such as northern hemisphere, southern hemisphere and E.U.
• The world production of apple at present is about 45 mill. tonnes, 71% of which is consumed as fresh apple while about 20% is processed into value added products of which 65% are processed into Apple Juice Concentrate (AJC) and the balance quantity into other products which include packed natural RTS apple juice, apple wine and cider, apple purees and jams, dried apple products etc. India is the ninth largest producer in the world
• India is the ninth largest producer in the world with a production quantity of about 1.30 million tonnes of fresh apple but produces only 4500 tonnes per annum of AJC which is equivalent to about 0.64% of the total world production.
• The market survery has also revealed that the all India weighted average of consumption of apple, jam and apple juice in the country stand at 31%, 25% and 9% respectively. Similarly the consumption pattern in the star hotels in the country stand at 21% for apple, 35% for jam and 7% for juice respectively.
• In the United States, the apple juice processing sector receives about half of all the apples produced domestically for processing.

• Apple Processing
• Varieties of Apple
• All About Apples
• Washington Apple Country Tours
• Tools for Cooks
• Kimmel Orchard

Company Profile

• Bowman Apple Products
• Bucher-Alimentech Ltd
• Ever Fresh Fruit Company
• Exporters of Apple Processing Plant
• Solana Gold Organics
• Virginia Apple Processors
• Tangibility
• The Mott Company
• Tree Top, Inc.
• VS Apple Industries

Consultants

• Aum Consultancy Pvt. Ltd
• Avalon Consulting
• Intota
• Martech Consulting Group
• Apple Consultants Network
• Food Industry Consultant
• Dr. Mark R. McLellan

Products

• Value Added Processed Apple
  Products
• Wellesley Products
• Apples/Apple products with reduced allergenicity
• Nutritional Benefits of Apple Products
• Diced Apple, Sliced Apple and Apple Sauce
• Apple Butter

Processing

• Processing and Bottling
• Apple and Pears
• Comprehensive Study on Processing of Apple
• Clear Apple Juice and Concentrate Production Line
• Extraction and Partial Characterization of the Ethylene-Forming Enzyme from Apple Fruit
• Extraction of Pectin From Apple Pomace
• RNA Extraction From Different Apple Tissues Rich in Polyphenols and Polysaccharides for cDNA
  Library Construction

Projects

• Apple Processing Base
• Agro and Food Processing
• Apple Farming in Marpha
• Extracting Apple Juice with Pectinase
• Processing Apple Slices
• New Technologies to process value added, Healthy foods from fruits and vegetables

Plant

• Food Processing Plant
• Knouse Foods Plants
• Processing Plants
• Qingdao Farmland Food Co., Ltd
• Organic Apple Production for Processing Pilot Project
• Tánaiste Officially Opens Showering’s New Apple Processing Plant

• Advances in Minimal Processing of Apples
• W. Australian apple growers moving processing to Chennai
• Jazz™ - a new New Zealand apple variety enters the global market
• Purchase prices for commercial apple have already exceeded past year level
• Fresh-Market Apples
• The Fruit Industry Today
• Production costs squeezing apple industry
• World Markets and Trade

Machinery Suppliers

• Fresh fruit processing machines
• Fruit Processing & Concentration Plant
• Fruit Processing Plant Suppliers
• Apple Peeler Corer Slicer
• Apple Slicer
• Apple, Cherry and Corn Processing Equipment
• Apple Peeler
• Fruit Processing Machinery Manufacturers & Suppliers
• Apple Wedger
• Apple Peeler Corer Slicer
• Apple Crusher
• Apple Divider
• Apple Extractor
• Apple Juicer
• Apple Mixer
• Apple Paring knife
• Apple Peeler
• Fruit Juice Processing Machinery
• Apple Slicer Importer & Exporter
• The Apple Pult

Patent & Technology

• Crisp Apple Snack and Process for the same
• Wild Apple Polyphenol and Process for Producing the same
• Process for making concentrated fruit juice
• Machine for precision low stress coring and slicing of apples and other soft-cored or pitted fruits
• Process for the extraction of an active principle from Teguments of Apple
• Danisco Upgrades Food Processing Enzymes
• Kiwi created food processing technology

Report

• Strategic Planning for the New York Apple Industry
• Hard Cider & Apple Wine
• Determination of Phenolic compounds apples and Processed Apple Products
• The effect of methods of extraction on the composition of expressed Apple juice, and a determination of the sampling error of such juices
• National Apple processing report
• Twelve Easy Pieces

Growers

• NewYork State Apple Products Directory
• Virginia Apple Trading Company
• Apple Acres Farm
• Minnesota Apple Growers Association, Inc.
• Ontario Apple Growers
• Washington Apple Country
• Wisconsin Apple Growers Association