Indonesia
canned tuna manufacturers apply top methods to
ensure the quality of their canned tuna products. Indonesia has been known for
one of the largest tuna producing countries and that’s includes tuna in cans
product. As tuna canning began popularly since the early 90s, canned tuna is quickly
grew and until now become one of the most popular products in the world
including Indonesia and outside of the country.
Many customers and importers of all around
the world entrust canned tuna product made by Indonesia. The tuna in cans
produced in Indonesia is one of the best instant seafood products that sold
widely across the countries for years. The reason is the methods and processes
used by Indonesia canned tuna manufacturers are
always bring high quality of tuna can product. It is the top process that can
make a good seafood product and not only about the quality of the tuna meat
itself. With the right process, a supplier can make a safe food for the people
to eat as well.
Indonesia
canned tuna manufacturers and their processes
To keep the tuna fish product in good
condition even after they are sold into the markets, the Indonesia canned tuna
manufacturers need to
conduct several processes. When the raw fish is received, the tuna need to be
frozen in cold storages with special temperature to prevent the fish become
spoilage.
Here are step by step Indonesia canned tuna manufacturers products:
1.
The frozen and fresh tuna fish
receiving
The tuna fish is unloaded
from the truck or vessel and container. And since there are many types of tuna,
the fish is sorted according to the size and specie. The sorted fish is put
into clean box. The boxes are labeled with some information regarding the
weight, date of receiving, the specie, condition of the fish, unloading time, the
vessel or the truck and container condition, fish temperature, etc.
2.
Sizing
Continued with the process
above, the sizing means that the tuna fish is sorted by species and sizes. The
fish will be put into cleaned fish boxes carefully. The boxes are labeled with
info like size, fishing boat, species, arrival date, and hatch. This is such
important processes that need to be conducted to determine the quality of the
tuna fish as well.
3.
Cold storage with special
temperature
For tuna fish that going
to be processed in the future, stock of fish is put into cold storage with
special temperature to prevent spoilage. For example, the fish is kept in a
storage with temperature as low as -180 degrees Celsius. With this method, the
fish will be prevented from quality deterioration. When the fish is ready to be
processed into canned tuna,
Indonesia canned tuna
manufacturers will take the fish based on FIFO (First in First out)
system.
4.
Thawing, butchering, and
precooking
Before the frozen fish is
processed, the manufacturer will thaw the fish with flowing water in thawing
bin. And after that, the fish is cleaned and butchered to remove the guts. Fish
is cut in the belly part and then the butchered fish is cooked into retort (big
cooker) with temperature 95-103 degrees Celsius for 50 to 150 minutes cooking
time that depends on the tuna fish size.
5.
Cooling and trimming the tuna
fish
The tuna fish which come
out of the big cooker is needs to be cooled down to avoid precooks scorching.
The cooked fish is sprayed with portable water to cool them down. After the
fish is cooled enough to be handle then the tuna is trimmed not using machine
instead the manufacturers will trim them manually. Trimming processes are
conducted to remove the skin, head, scales, small bones, and bones. This
process is required to separate red/ brown meat with white meat as well.
6.
The fish is going through metal
detecting
The fish that already
cleaned and trimmed perfectly is going through metal detecting before they are
filled into cans. The metal detector is set into some sensitivity to check the
tuna fish.
7.
Filling the tuna fish in cans
Cleaned tuna flakes or
loin are packed into cans with flake filler or tuna packer. For your
information, there are 3 kind of styles of filling the tuna into cans depending
on the order which are solid style, chuck style, and flakes styles. After the
filled cans are coming out of the packer or packed machine, they are going to
checking machine. The filling processes also include medium filling that
depending of the types of the products. The tuna canned is seasoned with oil,
brine, vegetable broth, or brine and oil.
8.
Seaming, sterilization, and
incubation
The seaming process is
required to close the tuna cans hermetically. This process is very essential
since it will make sure that the product kept can integrity endures for a long
time. It needs some seaming machine that set into high precision so the tuna
canned product integrity can be kept especially during processes, storages, and
deliveries.
After the cans are closed,
the product needs to be sterilized to remove the bacteria which might harmful
during storage. Meanwhile, incubation is a process to ensure that all the tuna
canned products have been processed perfectly and correctly. If the products
are not being processed correctly then the cans will be swollen and spoil.
9.
Labeling, packaging, and
stuffing
The tuna cans need to be
labeled either with sticker/ paper labels or printed labels according to the
customers or markets demand. After the Indonesia
canned tuna manufacturers are done labeling and packaging each can then
the products are stuffed into container to be delivered in certain areas,
places, markets, and customer’s place. Items are not only delivered locally or
nationally but also globally.
10.
Canned tuna products are
received by the customers!
The canned tuna products
safely arrived to the customers. You can keep the tuna cans for 3 to 5 years
but once the tuna can is opened, you need to consume it directly within 1 to 2
days.
Those are the
Indonesia canned tuna manufacturers processes which you need to
understand more to know how Indonesia produce high quality tuna seafood
products in can.