{"id":5063,"date":"2026-06-03T03:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agriture.jp\/powder\/thinned-melon-powder\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T20:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:29:11","slug":"thinned-melon-powder","status":"publish","type":"powder","link":"https:\/\/agriture.jp\/en\/powder\/thinned-melon-powder\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinned melon powder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thinned-melon powder is a raw material made by finely pulverizing, after drying, the immature fruit (thinned melon) removed during the melon cultivation process. Thinned melon belongs to the genus Cucumis, family Cucurbitaceae, and unlike a sweet, ripe melon, its appeal is a fresh flavor close to cucumber with a green note and a pleasant grassy aroma. Because it has little off-flavor, it can be evenly blended for uses such as confectionery, beverages, and dressings as a fresh green aroma or as an accent of color. Agriture uses the same raw material as itsdried thinned melon<\/a>and makes it into powder by adding a pulverizing process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thinned melon is normally unused fruit that is thinned out at the cultivation-management stage and discarded as is. By drying and powdering it, you can achieve both reducing food loss and the value of a \u201cfresh green aroma ingredient.\u201d Combined with same-family Cucurbitaceae ingredients usable in flavor design, such asZucchini powder<\/a>you can design a fresh, green-noted powder blend all at once. Specification refinement is possible from small quantities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three commitments in Agriture's thinned-melon powder<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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1. A drying design that preserves the fresh green aroma of thinned melon<\/h3>\n

Thinned melon has high moisture content, and how the green aroma comes through changes with drying conditions. Agriture adjusts the temperature range and operates under conditions that preserve the fresh, grassy quality characteristic of thinned melon. The color finishes as a fine powder ranging from pale green to pale yellow, a color tone that makes it easy to add a green nuance to confectionery, beverages, and dressings. Blend prototyping across use-case genres is possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2. Fine pulverization with selectable particle size<\/h3>\n

The required particle size differs between uses where you want even dispersion into liquid, as with beverages and dressings, and uses where you want to leave a green graininess in confectionery batter or toppings. Because thinned-melon powder lets you choose the mesh after pulverizing, you can adjust mouthfeel, dispersibility, and visible graininess to the use.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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3. Material design that makes use of thinned fruit, an unused resource<\/h3>\n

Thinned melon is immature fruit thinned out in melon cultivation, and until now much of it has been discarded as is. Agriture accepts this unused fruit as a raw material and, by drying and powdering it, supplies it as a material with a food-loss-reduction story. It is a raw material easy to match with confectionery and beverage projects that want to feature \u201cuse of unused fruit\u201d as a product background.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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