Not for just once that I personally has experienced, the cucumbers on the shelves in the supermarket is soft and looks not fresh anymore. Why is it happens? and what makes the cucumber become like that?

As one of the most consumed vegetables in the world, cucumber is popular everywhere. It has no special flavor, no allergy and is suitable for everyone. Remarked as healthy, low calories, it has become a key ingredient for all kinds of dishes, menu and recipe. But this vegetable is very difficult to make preservation. It's easy to get lost with it's moisture no matter in hot summer or cold winter. However, from picking up in a farm to sell it on the shelves in the supermarket, totally takes about 2 days at least. In some places where the local population is very low, the speed of selling out goods is relevantly slow. So, when the customer come to the supermarket to buy cucumbers, it maybe already unfresh to eat.

For farm owners or supermarket managers who grow or sell cucumbers are always looking for a good solution to preserve their cucumbers longer, so that they can have more good quality products for their customers and reduce the waste costs. The ideal method is to wrap the cucumbers by cling film. The film will keep the moisture inside, keep it fresh. However, this method is very time consuming. Wrap the cucumbers one by one manually takes too much time, owners will costs even more to hire more people to finish the work. So, this keeps us wonder is there a machine which can replace these manual work, free our hands and reduce labour costs for the business owners.

According to the request of one of our Botswana customers, we did some research and testing in our heat shrink packaging machine and found this shrink packaging machine suitable for vegetables, especially cucumbers:
This machine will automatically form the bags to cover the cucumbers, make the seals at the side and end of the bags. After the cucumber is sealed in the bag, it then will transfer into the shrink oven by the belt conveyor. The POF film bag is easy to get shrinked by the heat inside the chamber, become tightly covered on the surface of the cucumbers.

The shrink wrapped cucumber can keep moisture inside for weeks, make it fresh for longer. Meanwhile, the machine has drilled some holes on the film for cleaning out the air when shrinking in the shrink oven. These holes also help the cucumber to get small amount of oxygen, prevent the alcohol produced by anaerobic respiration of plants from spoiling cucumbers.

If you are a farm owner or supermarket manager, you should check this cucumber shrink wrapper, it can keep your cucumber fresh for weeks, no more waste to dump into trash bin. Your cucumbers will become more good looking with the stunning package, tight and neat exterior will make it easy to sell out. This vegetable shrink wrap machine will bring more profits for you by increasing your sales and reducing your labour costs and waste costs.