Product Dev / Process / Quality
Product Development
Our slogan is Innovations in Food…it means that we are eager to develop new products, to cater to current market trends. Sometimes, based on our gut-feel of what the market would love to have, we develop something revolutionary…something that’s not “out there.” For example, we have developed and commercialized successfully the World's first dehydrated Medhu Vada and launched them as Rasa Vada in 2016, and then Sambar Vada in 2018.
We have a professional and experienced product development team consisting of food safety auditor, micro-biologists, food chemist, head chef, and top/senior management. The recipes are sourced from the region of origin of the delicacy, from an authentic source. We iterate the recipe development process until we achieve a delicious homestyle and traditional taste (cooking – dehydration -rehydration); keeping a balanced spice level that will be appreciated by all our customers. Once the taste is accepted by means of organoleptic testing by our tasting panel, the dehydrated product undergoes accelerated shelf life testing and microbiological testing.
Process
Our Products are manufactured in a state of the art HACCP designed plant that achieved ISO 22000 certification in 2017 and FSSC certification in 2018.
Great care is taken to ensure cooking process is perfect, standardised and uniformity in taste is repeated batch after batch. The cooked products are skillfully dehydrated to perfection. The dehydrated products are screened for removal of all types of unwanted foreign objects, if present. As per the type of pack, the products are then weighed to precision, and passed through metal detection and packed in tri-laminated Nitrogen flushed food grade pouches. The pouche are then batch-coded and packed in food grade tubs along with food grade spoons. The packed tubs are then shrink wrapped and then passed through a final metal detection and cartoned.
Veg and Non-Veg products are packed in completely separate sections.
Please see a video about our Products and Covid Protection protocols being followed at our plant.
Quality
Only the best grade of raw materials from our Approved Vendors List are purchased. Suppliers are rated and monitored periodically. As a part of food safety & hygiene practices (GMP), vegetables are chlorinated and washed with soft water to ensure they are free from chlorine. Similarly granular ingredients are screened through vibro screeners and all raw material are subjected to visual inspection as well as chemical analysis. Only those raw materials which pass stringent testing enter the production process. Similarly all packaging material are subject to QA tests.
Please see a video on our Quality Assurance Facilities & Awards
At every step of the production process, Quality Assurance is achieved by monitoring and ensuring the process parameters are within our specifications. This applies to parameters pertaining to equipment and processing zones. Every batch of cooked product is tasted and after approval by the tasting panel, the batch is taken for further processing. The dehydrated batch is tested for moisture control parameters in our Chemical Lab, and only after the parameters are within specs, is the dehydration process deemed complete. QA inspections are performed during subsequent screening operations. In the packing process, the screened products are passed through metal detection, and QA random inspection of pouched packs is carried out. Random inspection of fully packed tubs taken from packed cartons is carried out. Inspections of goods lift and inspection of loading zones of our product transport vehicles for hygienic conditions are also carried out.
You can be assured of a delicious and safe meal experience every time you prepare a Triguni Eze Eats product!
