Tuna precooking optimization software
Optimize your tuna precooking process to maximize yield and enhance product quality by scientifically managing cooking variables in real-time.

Optimizes Tuna Precooking and Enhances Yield
The TunaCAL™ mathematical modeling software from JBT offers an advanced solution for optimizing the tuna precooking process, specifically designed for seafood and tuna processing industries. This software stands out by automatically adjusting for real-time product variables, enabling precise control over the cooking profile to reduce cooking losses, minimize oxidation, and improve loin quality. The TunaCAL™ is suitable for applications involving tuna steaks, loins, and flakes, as well as cooked poultry and seafood products. By leveraging traditional cooling cycle heat, the TunaCAL™ achieves significant energy and water savings. This system integrates seamlessly into high-speed, continuous operations and is straightforward to incorporate within existing production lines.
Benefits
- Enhances product yield by minimizing cooking losses.
- Improves loin quality and consistency, reducing the need for extensive skinning labor.
- Decreases oxidation to preserve product freshness and color.
- Achieves energy and water savings by utilizing existing cooling cycles.
- Automates real-time adjustments, streamlining production processes.
- Applications
- Seafood,Meat,Poultry,Tuna processing
- End products
- Prepared chicken breasts,Tuna steaks,Tuna flakes,Canned tuna,Processed meat chunks,Tuna loins,Cooked poultry cuts,Marinated fish portions,Cooked seafood fillets
- Steps before
- Tuna Procurement,Tuna Preparation,Brining,Marination
- Steps after
- Tuna Packaging,Canning,Labeling,Quality Control
- Input ingredients
- raw tuna,tuna loins
- Output ingredients
- cooked tuna,optimized tuna loins,high yield tuna
- Market info
- JBT is known for manufacturing innovative industrial machinery and solutions, particularly in the food processing and air transportation sectors, renowned for their advanced technology, reliability, and customer-focused engineered-to-order solutions tailored to specific industry needs.
- Automation
- Automatic adjustment
- Energy savings
- Significant savings
- Oxidation
- Virtually eliminated
- Consistency
- Improved yield and quality
- Cooking profile
- Accurate adjustment
- Automation level
- Automatic/Real-time Adjustments
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous Operation
- Energy efficiency
- Significant Savings
- Cleaning method
- CIP/Manual
- Process control
- Mathematical Modeling
- Yield Optimization
- Yes
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Yes
- Biological compatibility
- Food-safe
- Cleanability
- CIP compatible
- Oxidation resistance
- High
- Heat resistance
- Compatible with high-temperature cycle
- Control panel type
- Touchscreen HMI
- Energy efficiency
- Significant energy savings