Fruttomix

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  Fruttomix the enzyme making machine

Inspiration

Food waste has always been a major problem faced by households, food retails, and grocers. In fact, a large proportion of the food that has been thrown away are not spoilt or rotten, but rather due to their near-expiration or past-expiration date labels. And that, has contributed to every single one of the factors named as follows: wasted food, wasted revenue, wasted household income, and food insecurity. Now, I narrowed down the problem to reduce fruits and vegetables waste, where near-expired or past-expired fruits and vegetables can be turned into enzymes for other health and cleaning purposes.

Here, the Fruttomix enzyme making machine can be used to make 2 different types of enzymes:

1. Garbage/ eco-enzyme
2. Fruit drinking enzyme

Fruit drinking enzyme poses many health benefits, and acts as a natural digestion enhancer; whereas garbage enzymes are effective as natural cleaning agents and pesticides remover on fruits and vegetables. Essentially, these liquid enzymes can actually be turned into other organic/ natural ingredient health products including eye-drops (which has already been proven useful).

What it does

The Fruttomix enzyme making machine is intended to ease and fasten the process of preparation, layering, and extraction of fruits and vegetables (and scraps) before and after fermentation.

Challenges in making garbage enzymes and drinking enzymes include:

• Difficult processes: fruits peeling and vegetables preparation → slicing → layering → filling up bottles → fermentation (garbage enzyme: 3 months; fruit enzyme: 3 weeks) → filter, transfer, and bottling
• Time commitment: fermentation period, and success NOT guaranteed if procedures are incorrect

How we built it

Given the ingredients:

• Un-rotten Fruits or vegetables (for drinking fruit enzyme)
• Vegetable and fruit scraps (for garbage enzyme)
• Sugar
• Water

As shown in the Fruttomix enzyme making machine prototype, it contains:

1. Sugar compartments on both sides for even distribution
2. A slicer box with a blade
3. Layering container and storage
4. Liquid enzyme extractor with a tube
5. Dashboard
6. Lid for upper compartment

each of the compartments (including the blade) can be removed from the machine and comes with a lid for easy storage

How it works:

• Enzymes making goes with the water, fruits/ vegetables, sugar ratio of 10:3:1
• The process goes with a repeated layering of one layer of fruit/ vegetable slices, followed by a layer of sugar spread

Hence, once the start button is tapped on, the peeled fruits/ vegetables will be sliced and dropped, and the process will be paused once a layer is completed. Once the entire layering process is completed, water will be added manually based on the amount of fruits/ vegetables available and the container can be removed and stored for fermentation.

Challenges we ran into

Lack of technical knowledge

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Manage to come up with a prototype in Figma and the general workflow of the Fruttomix enzyme making machine.

What we learned

• By starting small, I learned about the ideation and the flow of making a draft and an understandable prototype before making a fully working product.

What's next for Fruttomix

1. Creation of a mobile app that can be used to track ingredient checklist and the entire fermentation cycle.
2. Scale size: home-based (smaller scale) vs. public-based vending machine (larger scale)
3. Future distributions and partnerships:
4. Retail grocer (resell products: fermented drinks, cleaning agents)
5. Health products manufacturer (eye drops)
6. Waste for soil and fertiliser manufacturer

Built With

• figma