Tender Coconut Water The water of Tender Coconut is a sterile, nutritious, thirst quenching health drink. The pure and sweet tender coconut possesses enormous therapeutic properties and is a thirst quenching refreshing health drink for all age groups. It is loaded with natural sugars, salts, and vitamins and is low in fat, calories and has no cholesterol. It's a highly rejuvenating tonic that can ward off fatigue in an instant. Tender coconut water has the same level of electrolytic balance as we see in our blood. The processing and packing of tender coconut water with a capacity of 10,000 tender nuts per day involves an investment ranging from Rs.35-40 lakhs covering plant and machinery and margin money for working capital with a direct employment potential of 30 personnel. The profitability after taking into account the prevailing prices of finished product works out to be around 20 per cent with a pay back period of 3 years. Tender coconut water enjoys a great potential as a health drink in India and international market. The Coconut Development Board in collaboration with Defence Food Research Laboratory, Mysore has developed the technology for packing tender coconut water in pouches/aluminium cans, which is available to entrepreneurs at a total lumpsum transfer fee of Rs.3 lakhs.

Process

Coconut Water of 6-7 month stage is first filtered through pressure filters and then mixed with the desired proportion of additives plus sugar and concentrated to the appropriate level. The water is then packed in pouches/cans and retorted in an autoclave, after which it is cooled in a stream of cold water

Product Specification

Project Cost (2500 litres of tender coconut water per day)

Machinery

        •     Coconut  water collection tank     •     laminar flow          •       Autoclave

      •     Filter                                          •     SS jacketed fettle

      •     Additive mixing tank                    •     coconut water storage tank  

      •     Volumetric filling machine            •     Baby boiler

Yield

Salient Features

Sources of Availability of Plant and Machinery

      •     S.P. Engg. Corporation, Easalganj, Kanpur, U.P.

      •     Ace pack Machines, Coimbatore

      •     Perfect Machine Traders, Kuruppam Road, Trichur-680 001

      •     Equipment Agencies, Kallai Road, Calicut.

Manufacturing Units

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