 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Totaloe Process
Based
on a strategic vision and with a continuous improvement philosophy, Aloe Vera
has developed a revolutionary, exclusive new formula known as Totaloe Process,
using the company´s own leading-edge technology, which enables to process Aloe
Vera without loosing any of the plant´s natural curative properties. With
Totaloe Process, Aloe Vera is carried from the plant to its diferent products
in permanent balance, keeping its qualities in complete way.
With Totaloe
Process, Aloe Jaumave gets results impressives to compare the Aloe Vera
obtained through Totaloe Process against international standards established to
the whole leaf and aloe vera gel.
Studies carried out by the North Texas
Research laboratory support the results obtained by our advanced total Process
technology, which allow us to guarantee quality products.
Hand Fillet Gel VS. Totaloe Process with Pulp
The
Totaloe Process Difference
Whole Leaf VS Total Process with no Pulp
Totaloe Process Aloe Vera contains considerably higher concentrations of total solids, Calcium, Magnesium and Malic Acid, the major parameters of quality utilized and recommended by the International Aloe Science Council for certifications.
Expoused
by Mr. Ramiro Estrada Avalos
Agricultural Engineer
Processing Aloe Leaves During the past several decades four basic methods of processing Aloe Leaves have been developed, namely:
- Traditional Hand-Filleted Aloe
- Whole Leaf Aloe
-
Powdered Forms of Aloe
A. Spray-Dried Aloe Powder
B. Lyophilized Aloe Powder
C. Dehydrated Aloe Powder - Total Process Aloe
1.-TRADITIONAL HAND-FILLETED ALOE
-
The Aloe Leaf consists of three layers:
- A. The outer thick green rind
- B. A viscous, jelly-like mucilage layer into which the vascular bundles, attached to the inner surface of the rind, protrude.
- C. The fillet proper which has structural integrity consisting of hexagonal structures containing the fillet fluid.
The pericyclic cells located at the top of the vascular bundles contains a yellow liquid called the "Yellow Sap" or "Latex". This material contains high concentrations of aloin and similar anthraquinones which exert a powerful laxative action when taken internally, indeed, during the 18th to the early 20th century, this yellow sap was collected and processed into a hard blackish material, the major product of the "laxative trade" era, while the rest of the leaf and its other constituents were discarded.
In order to avoid contaminating the internal fillet with the yellow sap, the traditional hand-filleting method of processing Aloe leaves was developed. In this method, the lower 1" of the leaf base (the white part attached to the large rosette stem of the plant), the tapering point (2-4") of the leaf top, and the short, sharp spines located along the leaf margins are removed by a sharp knife, then the knife, is introduced into the mucilage layer below the green rind avoiding the vascular bundles, and the top rind is removed. The bottom rind is similary removed, and the rind parts, to which a significant amount of mucilage remains attached, are discarded. Another portion of the mucilage layer accumulated on the top of the filleting table. This is of critical concern because the highest concentration of potentially beneficial Aloe constituents are found in this musilage, as this layer represents the constituents sinthesized by the vascular bundle cells empowered by energy developed in the green (chlorophyll-containing) rind cells through sun-induced photosynthesis.
The materials of the mucilage layer, subsequent to their synthesis, are distributed to the storage cells (cellulose-reinforced hexagons) of the fillet, a process which is accompanied by dilution owing to the water (the major fillet constituent), which is stored in the fillet cells. The fillet consists of more than 99% water.
As can be readily appreciated the Hand-Filleting method is very labor intensive. Owing to this fact, machines have been designed and employed which attempt to simulate the Hand-Filleted thechniques, but generally the product contains higher amounts of anthraquinone laxatives than the traditional Hand-Filleted approach.
In this process, the base and tip are removed as previously delineated, then the leaf is cut into sections and ground into a particulate slurry. The material is then treated with, special quimical products which breaks down the hexagonal structure of the fillet releasing the constituents, by means of a series of coarse and screening filters, or passage through a juice press, the rind particles are removed, the expressed juice is the passed through various filtering columns which remove the undesirable laxative agents. This process, performed properly, can produce a constituent-rich juice (generally containing 3 or more constituents than Hand-Filleted juice) virtually free of the laxative anthraquinones, this process, developed in the 1980's, is considerably less labor intensive ans is more cost effective.
Variously processed aloe juices can be reduced to powder form which improves shelf-life compared to liquid products and eliminates the cost of shipping water.
A. The spray-dried powder process entails the spraying of liquid aloe juice onto a matrix (usually high molecular weight maltodextrins which usually constitute 50% or more of the final product), and using high heat. The high heat exposure changes somewhat some of the potentially beneficial constituents.
B. Lyophilized (freeze-dried) powder utilizes cold and vacuum (usually about 1/3 atmosphere) which causes evaporation and sublimation of only the water in the juice. Heat-induced changes are avoided, but the procedure is considerably more expensive than the spray-dried process.
C. Fillets of aloe can be reduced to dehydrated pellets by placing them in a commercial-scaled vegetable dehydrator operated at relatively low temperatures (slightly above body temperature) but for many hours. The dehydrated pellets are ground to a fine powder.
In this new revolutionary approach, the aloe leaves are Hand-Filleted by the traditional, old-fashioned, labor-intensive method. Then the green rinds and the mucilage layer from the table top are processed by a newly developed proprietary methodology. A combination of the products produced by these two procedures produces al aloe product called TOTALOE PROCESS ALOE, which contains (as shown below) an enviably high concentration of desirable constituents which are virtually free of undesirable laxative anthraquinones.
In part, the high concentration of desirable constituents reflects the ideal growing conditions and nutritional factors available to the aloe plants fortunate enough to find themselves in the beautiful Jaumave Valley of north east Mexico, which is located in a semitropical zone completely devoid of freezing weather which can be so devasting to aloe plants.
The traditional Hand-Fillet methodology, coupled with the newly developed proprietary handling of the refuse of the traditional methods (green rinds and tabletop mucilage), and a geographical area where aloe plants thrive, have been combined in achieving the superior quality of TOTALOE PROCESS.
