Bakeries, ice-cream makers and sweet shops buy tutti-frutti in bulk all year. Vadodara is one of Gujarat's main papaya districts, so a small unit can buy raw green papaya nearby and turn it into candied cubes.
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This is a small food unit that turns raw green papaya into tutti-frutti, the sweet coloured cubes used in cakes, buns, ice cream, biscuits and paan. The papaya is peeled, cut into small cubes, blanched (dipped briefly in hot water), soaked in sugar syrup with permitted food colour, then dried and packed.
NABARD's 2023-24 credit plan for Vadodara names papaya among the district's main fruit crops and lists the district among the top contributors to Gujarat's papaya output. The same plan flags food and agro processing units as a thrust area. Papaya for this use is bought green and firm, so it handles and keeps better than ripe fruit. Vadodara's rail and highway links also put bakery buyers in Ahmedabad, Surat and Mumbai within reach.
You need an FSSAI food licence, a clean room with steel tanks and tables, a cube cutter, a steam kettle, a dryer and a sealing machine. The hard part is quality and price. Buyers compare colour, bite and stickiness, and cheap product is common. Sugar is a large running cost, so its price swings hurt. Use only permitted colours within legal limits, and keep batch records.
Sell in bulk packs to bakeries, sweet shops, paan shops, ice-cream makers and wholesale grocery shops. Start in Vadodara, then move to other cities along the highway.
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