As a child, many of us dreamed of getting to the factories and factories. Sharing secrets: how milk gets into a package, why paper sticks to the iris, and drinks bubble and imposed. When the age of the "accuracy" was passed and we grave - questions remained the same. And many fears have appeared. Suddenly in products hazardous chemicals. What to do? When children are born, many parents turn into a walking encyclopedia on medicine with a bunch of prejudice. Stupor - how to feed the child after breast milk if the ecology is rapidly worsening every year? Grow fruit on the windowsill? Will your cow? I decided to help young moms and went to the production of baby food "Fruntyan" in Lipetsk. We explain why the milk is stored for six months, and "Frutonian" can be bought without feet.
Juices, mashed potatoes, kishki and other products under the Frutonian brand make in the progress plant in the city of Lipetsk. Less than a year ago, a dairy plant was launched here, where curds are produced, yogurts, fermented milk products "bioolk", liquid kishkas and dairy cocktails. On the one hand, everything seems elementary. They took milk, crushed the fruit, poured into the box and sent to the store shelves. Not there was something. The production process is large and detailed at the same time. We will tell about it in more detail.
For the progress plant, milk brings three different complexes. On one of them we visited. It is located in the Lipetsk region. His construction was launched last year. Now the farm contains 1100 milk cows, 450 nonsense (cows that have not yet been giving birth) and young calves. According to the staff of the complex, the cow here is the main and everything spins around it. Animals live in large cows. These are long hangars, where there is everything you need - feed, water, laying. Cows do not hold in the stall. They live on the European "dust-free content." Freely walk along the barn, but they do not go to the pasture. It is not profitable.
Convenient conditions for cows are thought out to the smallest detail. For example, the lighting should be 200 lux. A person must calmly read in the Corobnik newspaper. Another interesting fact: animals comfortable at a temperature of minus 5-10 degrees. Therefore, in the winter in the barn, only one of the corter is lowered. The second opens to the air. If strong frosts hit, then the entire gate will be closed. The summer heat here includes fans. Cattle twice a day with a monocorme with the addition of the necessary mineral substances.
It is important to take care of cleanliness. The health of animals, and the quality, safety of milk depends on it. The barn on the farm is cleaned 45 times a day. We do not climb so much for the month. Employees are joking: if you want to hide from flies, come here. Insects are afraid of such purity.
Each cow here is registered. In the electronic bases, everything is marked: when it was born, when she got away how much milk gave on what day whether the vaccination was made and so on. Animals have their own "family" Doctor and the maternity branch. There is a kindergarten here. Veal, where kids live. It smells like a pair of delicious milk. The calves live in separate houses, and someone left them. Prepare for translation into an adult calf. Real Nurseries - all moth, jump, pull in mouth all that see. The calves are terribly curious. Here the cat ran the cat. Everyone sharply turned around, attached and follow. Feed kids 3 times a day. Every day, each should drink 8 liters of milk. There is a "dairy taxi" in the veal. Special shuttles are delivered milk and, as at refueling, calves sing from hoses.
During the day, the complex will dismiss the plant "Progress" of 20 tons of milk. Scale here are colossal. In the Soviet Union, the militant was given the Order of the "Veteran Labor" for 5,000 liters of milk. And now the cow only in one period of lactation gives 9,000 liters. They are milked 3 times a day with special machines. Then the milk is cooled and shipped to milkosos. And the journey just begins.
The progress plant is equipped with the latest technology and not in vain the so-called. Farming workshops and silver pipes fascinate. It seems that you are in a space station or are about to be transferred to the future. At the factory, fifteen kilometers of pipes, for which milk and dairy products are running daily for children. But to such a marathon, Molok has a few more tests.
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At first, milklozov calls on an external sink. Then the milk in tanks are mixed and take a sample. The shelf life of milk for the production of baby food is only 24 hours. You can not lose a minute. The sample belongs to the laboratory and check for antibiotics and other quality indicators. If the milk does not correspond to at least one parameter, the entire batch is deployed and returned to the complex. It is categorically impossible to launch it.
If everything is in order, the milk is cooled to 3-4 degrees and poured into the storage capacity. Here is one-piece milk, which is cleared at the following technological stages, is normalized by fat and pasteurizes. In this workshop, only six people work for shift. There is a special room here. Holy Saints, where the technological process control panel is installed. All technological objects, pipes and tanks are displayed on several monitors, the level of milk, its indicators, temperature and many other mysterious processes, numbers and letters are displayed in real time. Works per console just one person. Responsibility here is serious. Therefore, there is a ringing silence in the office.
In the same workshop there is another important department. Washing - a guarantee of high quality. After each production process, all objects are automatically washed with alkali solutions, acid and disinfection is carried out. No contamination can stay.
After fermentation, pasteurization and other complex special words, dairy products finally enters the packing shop. Here you can shoot the movie "Matrix" or program for Discovery. All automated and most importantly, you see the steps with your own eyes. Boxes are sterile and transparent. Endless conveyor tapes unwind tetra pak packing rolls. After a second, it is already folded into the boxes, even two - pour yogurt or cottage cheese, clog and send further. One machine sticks the tubes, the second takes pictures, whether straw is located correctly, the third folds jars in the box. A huge robot with metal hands collects products, making one big box. Packing cocktails and porridge are leaving for a warehouse. And there is another miracle of technology - drone loader. The robot gently raises, stops the box, takes them to the loading. Each of its action is fixed in the computer. Like everything else. At the time of "Progress" makes more than 50,000 sachets "Milk". You can take any product from the rack in the store, take the factory, and the staff will quickly tell you, absolutely the whole story of his birth
If you ask, Alexey Volokhi, Deputy Regional Director of Progress JSC How quality at the exit is controlled, he will smile and explain: the product is accompanied at all stages of production and check dozens of times.
Fruntian's biothot can be administered to a child with 6 months. For the shelf life, you can not worry. Some dairy products before opening the packaging can really be stored half a year, assures the director of innovation and management of Dmitry Makarkin. Due to the packaging, which is specifically processed and protects the product from external influences.
About baby food there are many myths. For example, moms give children a goat milk, considering it hypoallergenic. The pediatrician and nutritionist Adil Safronov explains that the goat milk from the cow is distinguished by only one enzyme. If the child has the intolerance to the cow's protein, most likely there will be cross-allergy to goat. Manna Little, too, do not feed the children. It consists of starch, there are no useful substances in it.
Mom, check, but trust
According to many pediatricians, it is better to trust industrial baby food. Moms often prepare at home. For example, a monocha and a banana or vegetable and fruit puree are added to it, but no one knows what quality is this fruit or vegetable, how much he kept, as it was grown. At the Frutonian plant, Skepticism passes. After all, according to Alexei Volocha, there is no more reliable guarantee of the highest quality of the product, when workers who are directly involved in production processes are fed by their products produced by their products.
Alena Sharicikova
Photo provided Peter Troshin