The dried fruit factory process

[@justinejantjies5065]

Would love to work there....and learn all areas....so interesting ❤

[@sadkas765]

Great work.I like it soo much. Many posts make a fixation on gloves as if putting gloves is a garanty of hygienic product. A more important issue is the upstream fruit production practices such as the use of chimicals, fertilizers, pestisides. love South Africa, Angola too.

[@sekrinihamid2572]

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[@CeciliasfarmCoZaStories]

Since there are still many questions regarding our workers not wearing gloves, I am re-posting the technical answer provided by our COO Aton Erwee (you can see the original post if you scroll down) for easy reference. Since this was posted we have also passed the very stringent quality and health & safety standards required of Waitrose suppliers, and we now export a very successful range to them in the UK too. Anton's reply re gloves vs no gloves: It is one the most widely-held misconceptions that the wearing of latex gloves in food handling leads to better hygiene and food safety. Up until a few years ago, the use of gloves in food manufacturing was promoted and widely adopted, but that trend has since been reversed. Research has shown that the use of gloves, while it seems counter-intuitive, actually has the opposite effect. Because it numbs the sense of feeling in ones fingers, one gets a false sense of cleanliness while there is actually a build-up of food material (and therefore bacteria) on the surface of the glove. This then may lead to workers not adhering to hand-washing protocols and quite easily lead to a person going through and entire shift with a pair of gloves that have become quite dirty. On the other hand (excuse the pun!), when handling food with ones bare hands, the sensation of stickiness, wetness etc. in fact leads to people naturally wanting to wash their hands more often and therefore acts as a very effective reminder to adhere to hand-washing disciplines. Consequently, we have discontinued the use of latex gloves. Instead, our focus is on ensuring that people work with clean hands at all times. We have very strict hygiene standards in our factory, which includes hand-cleaning procedures. Nobody can enter the factory without first washing their hands and scrub their nails. The flow of water on these wash troughs is activated by photocells so that a person does not need to touch a tap, which may lead to recontamination. Thereafter the person sanitizes his or her hands with an alcohol sanitizer. In addition there are washbasins within the factory close to every work station so that people can routinely wash hands during the course of a shift. We take random swabs of hands and work surfaces and send these to an accredited laboratory for microbial analysis to check the effectiveness of our hygiene measures. Lastly, I should point out that our factory and third party auditors regularly audit food safety systems. Not only are we a HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point ) certified facility, but our retail customers, Woolworths and Pick n Pay, also have us audited against their own food safety and GMP (good manufacturing practices) standards regularly. These audits are often unannounced to prevent “window-dressing”.

[@raysengineering786]

Makes a lot of sense tbh, well said. Love your products... Keep up the great work.

[@Beelzebububble]

And all you need is one diseased person touching the raw food - ever heard of typhoid mary? Try another spin.

[@CuriousFoxQuest]

I have no affiliation with this outfit, but I am deeply familiar with food processing, and the glove debate rages on and on. Everything written is accurate. "Try another spin"? How about the Washington Post? www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/food-service-gloves-the-pros-and-cons/2012/06/11/gJQAIHvrXV_story.html?.47b603048a10

[@JB-yb4wn]

Doesn't matter: you should have done that from the get go, why should we trust that your workers would act differently if you are not there to supervize them every step of the way? And you, as the head bwana in control should have known that. Don't worry, since it comes from Africa we won't buy it anyway, save your marketing rands for a place like Angola.

[@omarabdelmohsen6178]

CeciliasFarmStories man just use cloves

[@jhonnycaicedo5647]

Why must you add more sugar??🤔

[@alexmbabaali9753]

Exactly my question. Dried has a higher sugar concentration due to reduction in MC. It tastes sweeter already and then you add more sugar! If its for preservation, but then i see the products being extruded!

[@MaanOnnTheMoon]

bugged me too haha. nasty cancer sugars don’t belong near fruit sugars 😌

[@eddielloyd13]

Great stuff from South Africa.

[@antonerwee8055]

It is one the most widely-held misconceptions that the wearing of latex gloves in food handling leads to better hygiene and food safety. Up until a few years ago, the use of gloves in food manufacturing was promoted and widely adopted, but that trend has since been reversed. Research has shown that the use of gloves, while it seems counter-intuitive, actually has the opposite effect. Because it numbs the sense of feeling in ones fingers, one gets a false sense of cleanliness while there is actually a build-up of food material (and therefore bacteria) on the surface of the glove. This then may lead to workers not adhering to hand-washing protocols and quite easily lead to a person going through and entire shift with a pair of gloves that have become quite dirty. On the other hand (excuse the pun!), when handling food with ones bare hands, the sensation of stickiness, wetness etc. in fact leads to people naturally wanting to wash their hands more often and therefore acts as a very effective reminder to adhere to hand-washing disciplines. Consequently, we have discontinued the use of latex gloves. Instead, our focus is on ensuring that people work with clean hands at all times. We have very strict hygiene standards in our factory, which includes hand-cleaning procedures. Nobody can enter the factory without first washing their hands and scrub their nails. The flow of water on these wash troughs is activated by photocells so that a person does not need to touch a tap, which may lead to recontamination. Thereafter the person sanitizes his or her hands with an alcohol sanitizer. In addition there are washbasins within the factory close to every work station so that people can routinely wash hands during the course of a shift. We take random swabs of hands and work surfaces and send these to an accredited laboratory for microbial analysis to check the effectiveness of our hygiene measures. Lastly, I should point out that our factory and third party auditors regularly audit food safety systems. Not only are we a HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point ) certified facility, but our retail customers, Woolworths and Pick n Pay, also have us audited against their own food safety and GMP (good manufacturing practices) standards regularly. These audits are often unannounced to prevent “window-dressing”.

[@tigertrail3361]

Anton Erwee : latex replacement is poly ethylene gloves. they are transparent and disposable after once use. Although I approve your defined hygienic protocols and myself educated in polymers and am an industrialist, thought this could help for public satisfaction

[@DilshanJayasuriya]

why are they touch the foods even without glouses?

[@svend9392]

stop at 00:50

[@fedreserv6133]

Gloves without latex are being made for some time now, so "no-latex in our production" excuse for manipulating the goods with bare hands simply doesn't stand. Random swabs made in external laboratory means nothing in practice. The only reasonable procedure would be swabs made at least two times per shift (on the start and on the end of the shift for example). Not to mention that "external lab analysis" usually means RARE/ONCE PER MONTH analysis, as I'm pretty sure you don't send swab samples to external lab more frequent. HACCP and GMP are something nobody even mention in nowadays food safety. FSSC 22000 or BRC+IFS standards are optimum (I would say minimum) for some time now. Floors at 1:26 are far from perfect with all those grooves, perfect for bacteria contamination, while the worker push the loading charts with his sleeves wrinkled up. Not to mention 0:33 operator on the scanner wearing SHORTS?!?! which is forbidden in any production area for decades. How do you prevent hair contamination with such practice?!? All in all, it seems you're oriented to "lower the cost" policy, which seems reasonable, but you're implementing it at totally wrong places.

[@Tlhakxza]

Where in the Western Cape are you guys based, I’m an addict of both dried fruits and massive glutton of Fruit Dainties, I’d love to visit the establishment one day to see how these are all made and buy a lot for myself,relatives,friends in Joburg.✌🏿🇿🇦 forget about these yanks who are gonna wanna act all holy on us, all my 40 years in South Africa I’ve never had any problems with my dried fruits being touched by hand,if anything I prefer it that way...baie Dankie🇿🇦✌🏿

[@CodakChris]

Imagine me watching this in 2020 with covid and see all the no gloves and mask lol

[@SadiaM1960]

I can’t believe one one is wearing gloves 🧤 wow.

[@lislevollgraaff1236]

Please post a video on how fruit sugar lollies are made... please 🙏

[@KarmasPerjury]

does drying fruit give it more calories for example if i dry 100 calories of apple does it now have 200 calories?

[@antonerwee8055]

Hi Charles. Drying cannot "create" more calories. If you start off with 100 calories you will end with more or less 100 calories. The difference is however the loss in weight of the dried product. If you start with 100 g of fresh apple you end up with more or less 15 g of dried apple. In other words, you had 100 calories / 100 g of fresh apple and now you have 100 calories / 15 g of dried product. The concentration of calories increased. I trust this explanation makes sense!

[@Ragusubedi]

There are two parts in this question, does 100g dried fruit contain more calories than 100g raw fruits? The answer is YES. The second part is, does 100 gram raw apple(which is less than raw by mass) contain more calories than 100 g raw fruit -the answer here is no.

[@heyitsthatoneguy91]

Pause at 0:50 ol boy is _way_ to thrilled about moisture levels

[@mr.sanjitsaha2033]

I am planning to start one factory like this in India. Would you please help us or give consultancy for the production?

[@sambitkoley2733]

How they can resist tasting them????

[@marinasavundranayagam6528]

no one have gloves how come?

[@mayaharidas731]

Sir where is the place?

[@trixsta54]

Omg... No freaking gloves? That's so nasty especially handling all that sticky fruit! I mean people scratch their asses and pick their noses, lick their fingers and... um.. ya. Get the picture? In this day and age with all these sicknesses and bacteria going around, gloves should be ESSENTIAL.

[@trixsta54]

What difference does that make when they go ahead and scratch their ass or pick their noses right after? You can sterilize your hands all you want, but bacteria will recontaminate the hands by touching a simple surface or pushing buttons etc. Plus to actually kill most bacteria you have to scrub your hands for a minimum of 30 seconds for sanitizing to even be somewhat effective. Now we all know most people do not scrub hands for that long especially in a busy environment such as this one.... So without gloves like most other facilities actually DO use, you will recontaminate at a much higher and faster rate. It's like Subway restaurant, they all use gloves with each customer and throw them away when they are finished. Now imagine them making your sub not to mention handling all that meat and veggies with bare hands? Not all of them are gonna wash their hands for half a minute when it's lunch or dinner rush... I rest my case.

[@castrogot]

+trixsta54 When it comes to Good Manufacturing Practices in food industry, it's been proveen that using gloves represents a high risk for contamination. People using gloves tend to forget about where are placing their hands all the time, causing non-hygienic practices. If you replace the gloves for periodical hand sanitizing procedures (every 30 min for example), you can improve product quality, personel performance and reduce bacterial contamination risk. Best regards.

[@gemajimenez5506]

Yeapp!!!

[@carmendelgado105]

trixsta54 especially now.

[@Hazball]

@@carmendelgado105 ​ Yes haha, the importance of a 5 years old comment, exemplified.

[@dawchoden7031]

big company not wearing gloves for hygiene ?? please explain !!! which country is it ???

[@iafrobeatz]

why add sugar? and why no gloves?

[@mikeyboy8557]

Why no gloves, why??

[@CeciliasfarmCoZaStories]

Hi Jimmy1985, please see our re-posted answer on the gloves question above. Thanks!

[@Beyondthebite2024]

Why added sugar?

[@louishollandjr]

Boyan Novkovic to make folks fat feed the brain sugary snack cause Addicts .

[@johnb1391]

It's because sugar is a curing agent just like salt is. The reason companies put so much salt and/or sugar into their food is to extend the shelf-life of the product. Curing is one approach to extending foods. Both salt and sugar absorb a lot of water which creates environments that very little bacteria can harbor in, thereby reducing the chances of a colony growing inside the food while it is waiting to be sold.

[@Ragusubedi]

Sugar is a preservative, just like salt. With no preservative, you are not preserving food for future use.

[@naagy9723]

i hate sulfur dioxide. do they really have to use it in every dried fruit. it tastes horrible

[@antonerwee8055]

Hi there. Not all dried fruit contains sulphur dioxide. Examples of dried fruit that does not contain sulphur dioxide includes raisins, prunes, figs and dates among others.

[@naagy9723]

Anton Erwee raisins do have sulfur dioxide and they taste and smell really bad though

[@jasonceci8830]

0:49 man got that peach on his mind

[@kienwenchang7108]

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[@katelinerosen8788]

This is south african. The dried fruit is so good

[@ammahname91]

0:49 pure meme material.

[@DominikRy2n]

hahaha 100%

[@Xae_in_a_Coat]

Yup...

[@antonerwee8055]

And what would the meme say?🤣

[@kali11123]

@balsakification what do you mean

[@bkfinest006]

um where are the gloves sir?

[@sureshruparel9114]

Missing my South Africa visit been very long over due I felt my second home for me🇮🇳🙏

[@koolaid5684]

0.50.....this guy lives for dried fruit

[@MrBlackfetus89]

koolaid5684 LOL..... Such a weird out of place closeup of a smiley guy

[@siggiewi89]

I noticed that no rubber gloves were ever used in all process

[@jtk5585]

Don't you like it?

[@siggiewi89]

Its not a matter of like it or not but hygiene comes first as humans are liable to get infections easily.

[@jtk5585]

jolly-nice Oh, ok

[@JesusGodHolySpirit3]

Lol there was one glove on the right hand of ONE worker - how did you miss that ? lol

[@hanansalih497]

Why they dont wear a glove

[@b-sideron4674]

I freaking love freeze dried fruit. I eat it like everyday lol

[@formbuild1088]

I work there. I had my finger up my ASSHOLE... Like the favouring ???

[@user-zr5vu4bl8k]

@@formbuild1088 HaAhaHaAhaHa

[@sarimixtvlog1029]

yuckz using by hand with any cover this is India?

[@bizojan]

+Rodel Sanchex, no this is not India

[@77santosh1977]

What is about Nose MASK??

[@san9024]

Why there is no hand gloves dear Quality controller....

[@BeingAndHappenings]

💖💖💖💖💖

[@siristanboli]

You need to wear gloves, hat , and face mask. How is this factory pass quality control to pass all the food to consumers 🤮🤢

[@sreep494]

Please let us know the email id of the production unit. We would like to start in India

[@srishanmugaamminuts9339]

[e-mail]

[@mohammedschabierameer6530]

Very interesting

[@edwardsrubyg]

It’s sad that a lot of people think commercial dried fruit is healthy when it’s actually crystallised sugar. Just as good as eating sugar in its crystal form. Even more sad when parents, mums pack it in their children’s lunch boxes. 4 grams equals 1 teaspoon of sugar... you can work out just how much sugar you’re eating from one of those packs. Healthy food is unprocessed food. Period ❣️ Knowledge is P💥 WER wishing you all sensational health 🍐🍊🍏🥝🥝🍆🥑🥦

[@harshadtkmuhammed8467]

They not using glaws

[@cobyveron]

bare hands!!!? hell no

[@rosejames900]

THAT'S ONE, LONG SHITTY EXCUSE FOR YOUR UNCLEANNESS!!!!!

[@sikandarkhankhan574]

verry nice

[@aouatifzandar7018]

They add too much sugar to the fruits 😓

[@dotsharaheem1625]

No gloves?

[@divineasobo1710]

When you think you finally free from sugar foods🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kimmauss]

Who Else is eating dried fruit well watching this

[@Tlhakxza]

Kim Mauss ME enjoying my fruit dainties 😋😋

[@NoiseHelm]

0:49

[@nqobilemdlovu3283]

Clearly all of you complaining about "no gloves" have never been in a large production environment. Places do not use gloves but have sanitizers and other systems in place to make sure the food is safe for consumption

[@justdaniel7995]

You still cant stop them from scratching asses and picking nose after sanitized their hand.. or how convinced are you to believe that will be 100% nose picking/ass scratching free?

[@becky15707]

Just Daniel and they can still do those with the gloves so ?

[@boonchengaho2553]

Never use gloves to touch n packing the food....dirty

[@김미향-c6p]

tell me about it

[@cathyleslie2589]

No use of gloves ......... I not buy. bye

[@suezsiren117]

No use of gloves ...... I not bye. Buy!

[@michaelschnorr802]

Although wearing gloves may seem reasonable to you, in reality, the plastic actually harbors and grows more bacteria between the glove and the hand. Additionally, most workers tend not to change their gloves enough times during the process or shift, allowing for transfer of bacteria higher than the rate of transfer with bare hands. Wearing gloves gives a false sense of cleanliness to the worker so less care is taken regarding cross-contamination. It has been proven that the best way to eliminate any possible contamination is to eliminate the gloves and wash the hands quite frequently.

[@CBDav]

no way would I eat it.

[@Nettamorphosis]

Are y'all paying a livable wage to these hard workers?

[@grneyedshewolf]

I wouldn't dare buy this after everyone has pawed it to death with ungloved hands that for sure

[@04smallmj]

Why are people so obsessed with gloves?

[@pionaire3215]

No wonder I always get sick when ever I eat these kinds of processed dried fruits, it’s all because of that sugar you added, this is why I now sun dry my own fresh fruits and there’s no need to add sugar, fruits contain their own natural sugars, and you can’t go wrong doing things naturally!!!

[@mackaruchi28]

Makes no difference, one can still scratch arse wearing gloves, in fact people who wear gloves tend to wash their hands less and cross contaminate more often...what do you think goes down in a kitchen restaurant... Can cook wearing gloves and other people taste your food, I'm a cook... Oh the things I've seen!

[@NarinderKaur-ob6tt]

The staff should wear hand gloves

[@nicomariussmit6335]

I hope by now they are using glove and masks

[@Cody_OConnell]

How to make dried fruit: first, start with dried fruit

[@rezasadrialamdari3829]

Why no gloves? Please!

[@marykacyy6802]

1:10 WTF !?? No gloves!! No just no

[@basherkp3119]

This is looking packed with naked hands, without gloves that's what not hygienic

[@regore1233]

Please hand glooves

[@tirtirien]

they need to wear gloves..ew!

[@aussielass5621]

No gloves

[@gig970]

yes, no one has gloves, at least for sake of this video.

[@JesusGodHolySpirit3]

Lol there was one glove on the right hand of ONE worker - how did you miss that ? lol

[@gig970]

LOL good one!

[@flipballaz93]

human bacteria is the best flavoring!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@JohnDoe-jb5ko]

Those workers do not look very happy...

[@TheGiversheart]

very disturbing no gloves fr the workers is there s reason

[@CeciliasfarmCoZaStories]

Hi TheGiversheart - please see our long reply re the technicalities of the use of gloves re-posted above. Thank-you!

[@abu2brzan]

مايلبسوا قفازات

[@فردوسالجنه-ض6ع]

أبو برزان المهم بيمشو شغلهم😒

[@JagdishParmar-ku3mb]

jagdish

[@IO-zz2xy]

None of the staff are wearing gloves or masks. This is not acceptable in food handling processes especially in SA were there is a high degree TB and Hepatitis infections and carriers. This is disturbing.

[@BarryBollox.]

Delicious :) for all those moaning about gloves. Get you head out of your arses. Don't ever eat anything other than what you have planted grown and cooked yourself, Don't ever go to a restaurant, Don't ever put your hand on a public hand rail, Don't ever go to a public swimming pool. Don't ever Drink tap water, Don't ever use a public toilet, Don't ever step outside, in fact go and live in a pure oxygen tank otherwise your insides will turn into liquid mush because you will have an untrained immune system that will struggle to deal with the slightest bit of bacteria or germ.

[@vulkan2222]

Not tso healty with this much suger and without gloves....

[@castrogot]

+khosro soltani When it comes to Good Manufacturing Practices in food industry, it's been proveen that using gloves represents a high risk for contamination. People using gloves tend to forget about where are placing their hands all the time, causing non-hygienic practices.When you replace the gloves for periodical hand sanitizing procedures (every 30 min for example), you can improve product quality, personel performance and reduce bacterial contamination risk.Best regards

[@danemildizon4170]

+Tomás Castro González ... You must also consider that our body excrete some toxins or excess minerals through our skin. And by the way, either wearing gloves or not, people are still the same. They tend to forget where their place their hands. Just wondering how wearing gloves makes a person to forget where he places his hand? In the medical or nursing practice, we tend to be more aware if we are wearing gloves, especially when we are using sterile gloves...

[@berkvi]

MALATYA

[@rsreal6651]

🤑🤑

[@againstallodds6341]

had me til i saw bare hand. no sir. natural, healthy or not. yal should try gloves. thats it end of story.

[@Ggg44ttt]

I will never buy dried fruit after this video..👹👹🦎🦎🐞🐞👹👹

[@lyn9306]

Why they are not wearing face mask and hand gloves? Poor hygiene

[@chandrakalsadi1227]

Aachehaivideo

[@zeetube8407]

Sugar rueind

[@sunshinebright7024]

no masks, no gloves, so dirty. It's the reason why I don't eat the dried fruits.

[@24bidy]

all I see is no gloves and sugar blehh

[@ariimaifortigg4646]

Țĺ

[@mikeb5486]

Keep them butt fingers off that food and put on some gloves

[@james_bam11]

Fuck don't add sugar to it

[@gracekim3186]

Ite I'ma head out

[@babon80]

If I were you I would take this video offline and redo it with fucking gloves!! I will never buy cecilia's dried fruit after seeing this. Yet maybe after you take it down some people who haven't seen it yet will believe in your story bye

[@CeciliasfarmCoZaStories]

Hi Osman, please see our comments re-posted above for easy reference. Please also refrain from swearing on our Channel, otherwise next time we will need to remove your comment since it does not adhere to our standards.

[@splendidtime1]

you people are dirty. you need gloves. How many people do you want to touch your food. Even if you wash your hands. That is a lot of DNA get all over the food. It is not clean.

[@fancygif4646]

Mmmm.. Looks like dog food.