Food machinery and equipment help cat canned production

Posts about what to feed cats often spark heated discussions, with cat food, canned food, and raw meat all gaining followers. It is widely spread that the cat food produced by extrusion equipment is dry food, and their water content is low. For cats who do not like to drink water, it is easy to cause a series of "cat diseases" due to insufficient water intake. And canned cat food is wet food, with higher water content, and more water intake than dry food.

Therefore, more and more people propose to use canned cat food for feeding, or to feed dry food with canned cat food. This can also be easily seen from the sales of 2.4 million cans in Jingdong Supermarket on Double Eleven last year. Now that canned cat food is accepted by more and more people, canned cat food has derived two categories: canned staple food with balanced nutrition and canned snacks with uneven nutrition. So what equipment will be involved in the production process of canned food? Let's follow the author to see it.

Meat processing equipment

At present, most cat owners accept the statement that cats are pure carnivores. Therefore, in the selection of canned cat food, they hope that as much meat as possible, the production of canned cat food requires more processing of meat, such as fish meat debone equipment, Bone crushing equipment, meat cutting equipment, etc. are of great use.

Generally speaking, it is more common to use cod and tuna in canned cat food, and it is still necessary to debone the fish in the process of making canned fish. The fish meat debone equipment that appears on the market is also called fish meat meat picking machine. The meat picking barrel of this equipment rolls and squeezes with the rubber belt to obtain the minced fish meat, and the fish bones and fish skin are continued to be transported by the rubber belt. . It is understood that the current output of this equipment covers 180 kg to 1,100 kg, which can meet the processing needs of pet canned production enterprises for raw materials.

Meat is the protagonist of canned cat food. Canned products such as canned staple food will add bones for nutritional balance, so bone crushing equipment is very necessary. It is easy to know from daily life that cutting the bone causes great damage to the tool, and the bone crushing equipment also faces this problem. It is reported that, in order to protect the knives, the bone crushing equipment currently on the market first uses high-quality alloy steel that has undergone special heat treatment. The frame is optimized to disperse the force on the tool and further improve the impact resistance of the tool.

Can Seamer and Sterilization Equipment

We know that canned food can be stored for a very long time without additives as long as it is sterilized and sealed. Therefore, for pet cans, sterilization and airtight packaging are also extremely important steps in the production process of cans.

Sealing packaging generally requires a vacuum sealing machine. Nowadays, with the increasing degree of equipment integration, sealing equipment and filling equipment usually form a filling and sealing combination machine. For example, in the filling and sealing combination machine suitable for viscous materials produced by a company in Zhejiang, the filling adopts the principle of piston filling, and the piston shrinks to absorb the material. Once an empty can is detected, it moves downward for filling. Immediately after completion, move to the can sealing machine for sealing. The two rollers of the can sealing machine will perform two steps of pre-sealing and solid sealing on the can body to ensure that the oxygen necessary for microorganisms is lacking in the can.

In the production process, the food in the canned cat needs to be cooked at high temperature to ensure the maturity of the ingredients. Therefore, the sterilization of the canned cat is mainly heat sterilization, and the retort can meet this demand. Cat cans are mostly metal cans, which have a certain ability to resist pressure difference, and the pressure control of sterilization is relatively easy. However, in order to achieve aseptic effect, canned cat food has higher requirements on temperature and time. It is reported that the sterilizers on the market are equipped with movable temperature sensing probes, which have a more comprehensive understanding of the food temperature and the temperature distribution in the sterilizer.

When it comes to feeding pets, more and more people in our country hope that pets can eat well and eat healthily, and the pet food economy is also booming. As a wet food that can provide more comprehensive nutrition for pets, canned pet food is scientifically certified by more and more pet owners. Therefore, related food machinery and equipment also need to seize this production opportunity and develop products that are more in line with people's expectations.