KENYA · GUIDE 0111 · EDITION 4.2
Dried fruit packing in Kenya
Dry and pack fruit with controlled quality and verified storage conditions.
A CONCRETE EXAMPLE · ILLUSTRATIVE
Fictional dried-mango repacking order: two hundred 50 g pouches, ten kg accepted slices, from eleven kg of appropriately assessed ready-dried mango. One kg is an illustrative hold/trim/residual allowance. The business buys dried slices rather than pretending fresh-to-dried recovery; confirm sulphites/additives with supplier and declare as required. Qualified food controls and shelf-life evidence still apply to the repacked product.
Who is the first customer?
Snack retailers and consumers seeking a portable fruit product.
Test the offer
Measure actual fresh-to-packed yield on a small process-controlled batch.
What your operating pack contains
- A business-specific operating guide PDF
- Offline itemised costing and quotation tool
- Supplier request and sales message drafts
- Job-card and quality-response documents
- Offline operations desk: supplier comparison, work checkpoints, accepted deliveries and cash tracking
- Cashflow and launch review: downside scenarios, break-even, 13-week cash plan and trial decision
- Source register and unresolved checks
Delivery and quality
Do not promise shelf life from dryness by touch alone; obtain relevant testing.
Cost drivers
- fresh fruit
- drying energy
- yield loss
Use your own supplier quotations. Worked figures in the pack are illustrative and do not establish a verified startup budget or profit forecast.
Evidence and scope
UC Davis / FAO: Processing of Horticultural Crops ↗
Drying equipment, preparation and contamination context; old temperatures, treatment recipes and storage-life claims are not adopted as commercial validation. · Checked 2026-10-26
FDA: Mycotoxins ↗
Identifies toxin hazards in susceptible crops including grains, dried fruit, peanuts and coffee; no US limit is presented as Kenyan acceptance law. · Checked 2026-10-26