Nebulisation
Attractiveness, freshness, taste, anti-waste and better storage of fruits and vegetables on the fresh department
Day and night, ARECO nebulisation preserves the freshness, taste and organoleptic qualities of your fruits and vegetables thanks to stable and controlled hygrometry (90% RH).
ARECO nebulisation allows to enhance your fruits and vegetables departments while reducing food waste. Thanks to our nebulisation systems, your products retain their quality, they are better and longer preserved, which reduces the waste. The resources required to make them to reach the sales area are thus reduced.
Category of vegetables to nebulise
Leafy vegetables (leaf carrots, salads, radish, spinach…)
The humidification we provide on fruits and vegetables has many benefits:
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Enhanced appearance of the fresh department with the freshness of the shelf: nebulisation attracts the eye and promotes impulse buying.
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Positive image of the fruits and vegetables department and the store
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Faster product turnover
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Decrease of the breakage rate
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Reduced weight loss of the fruits and vegetables
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Extended exposure time (+1 to 4 days)
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Decrease of the temperature above the shelf
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The organoleptic qualities of the products are preserved: preservation of vitamins and polyphenols (trace elements with antioxidant properties)
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Better layout of products on the shelf
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Reduced staff intervention: thanks to 24-hour operation, products remain on the shelf night and day.
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Improvement of the profitability of your fruits and vegetables department: return on investment between 12 and 18 months.
Nebulisation preserves the freshness and nutritional qualities of vegetables
The ARFITEC Group has conducted a study in collaboration with the CTIFL to measure the impact of nebulisation on leafy vegetables and more particularly salads.
The study says that nebulisation maintains the water content and avoids loss of mass in salads. The results also show a stability of the organoleptic properties (carotenoids, organic acids and polyphenols).
Nebulisation thus maintains the products in a state similar than harvest step.
With nebulisation, the products keep their freshness and their organoleptic/nutritional qualities from the farmer field to the fresh produce department.
Nebulisation adapts to your products layout
The fruits and vegetables department changes with the seasons. To meet this need, ARECO offers a modular solution so that the nebulisation can be adapted to your products layout.
ARECO nebulisation tested and validated
"The results of this study show that the nebulised lettuce samples have, after 48 hours of conservation at 20°C, a water content and concentrations of compounds of nutritional interest (carotenoids, polyphenols) similar to those initially observed, and that this process makes it possible to maintain the product in a state of "freshness" close to the starting product. »
Christophe AUBERT, Laboratory Manager
« Lettuce can lose over 3% of its original weight, a radish bunch more than 2.5% and broccoli more than 1.5%. At these levels, physiological deterioration (wilting) are already visible on the lettuce and radish tops. When these products are subjected to appropriate humidification, respectively they lose two times less weight for lettuce, three times less for radish and almost four times less for broccoli »
« Benefits of installing a Nebulizer System: feeling refreshed, system that allows better conservation of salads, a process that results in more flattering offerings. »
« The implementation of the system gives the impression of a concern for product quality, ahead of its competitors, close to consumers. »
« The artichokes have a long shelf life of five days with ARECO nebulization, broccoli has one day, iceberg lettuce three days, the purple artichoke 7 days, 2 days fennel, asparagus 3 days. »
« Since installing, the ARECO nebulization system, the qualitative picture of the display increased significantly. »
« Marketing was always possible three days after the shelving for nebulized salads and 4 days for asparagus. These shelf lives are three times longer than in a refrigerated displays. »
For consumers
A POS material is installed on the shelf to inform about the benefits of nebulisation for the fruits and vegetables and to specify that the water fog diffused over the products is filtered, and without the addition of chemicals.
