Fruit juice treatment using electromagnetic pulse generated using high voltage tesla transformer to eliminate Escherichia coli bacteria.

A healthy consumable fruit products demands is highly increase over time. This is mainly due to the need of high-quality food increase as the economic is better and also because of healthy reason. Fresh fruits drink is always requested by costumer, however this is not always available in the market due to some reasons. Thus, processed fruit juice might be a substitution for fresh product. However, during food process, the fruit juice quality might decrease as the juice prone to the pollutant during the process and keeping time. So, it is needed to provide a packing process that able to reduce or even eliminate pollutant during the processing and storing. One of the most dangerous pollutants is pathogenic microorganism such as Escherichia coli. If consumed, Escherichia coli can cause diarrhea which could lead to severe stomach ache. In this paper, discussed food juice treatment by using pulse electric field generated by tesla transformer to disinfect the fruit juice thus eliminate the microorganism. A prototype of the food juice treatment system is built by using a Tesla transformer to produce high voltage thus generate pulse electric field which then will be used to eliminate microorganism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]