Drying your raw material
You send the produce. We sort it, ozone-wash it, dry it, and send it back whole, sliced, flaked or powdered.
Less heat. More patience.
Low-temperature drying takes longer. It's also the best way we know to keep the colour, aroma and flavour of what goes into the dryer. Koel Dehydrates is a contract drying, milling and packing unit in Coimbatore, working with food brands, farmers and chefs across India.
- Up to 10 t
- processed a month
- Ozone-washed
- every batch, before drying
- Low-temperature
- slow, controlled drying
- Your label
- bulk or retail-ready packs
Who comes to us
Most people arrive with one of these.
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A product idea, but no dryer.
Start-ups and food brands who want a dried or powdered product without setting up a plant of their own. We handle the making, and it goes out under your name.
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More harvest than market.
Farmers and FPOs with surplus or a seasonal glut. Dried properly, produce keeps far longer than fresh, so it can wait for a better price instead of spoiling.
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A recipe that needs the same input every month.
Makers of soups, seasonings, beverages, bakery and nutraceuticals who need one dried ingredient to a fixed spec, batch after batch.
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A menu, not a factory.
Hotels, restaurants and caterers who want their own chutney bases, gravy premixes or garnishes made to their recipe.
Services
What we can take on.
Making it under your brand
Give us the spec. We source the produce, process it and pack it in bulk or in retail-ready packs with your label on it.
Powders, milled cool
Heat-controlled milling so a powder keeps the colour and aroma of what went in. Tell us the mesh size you need.
Getting the product right first
Small trial batches and formulation help from a trained food technologist, before you commit to volume.
Blends and ready mixes
Herbal tea blends, fruit and vegetable malts, ready-to-cook gravies, chutney bases, ready-to-eat idiyappam.
How it works
How a job runs.
From your first message to the day your packs leave the unit. Nothing hidden, no step skipped for speed.
Curious about any step? Ask us.
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You tell us what you have in mind
The product, the format (whole, slices, flakes or powder), a rough quantity and how it should be packed. A WhatsApp message is fine, and we'll sign an NDA first if you'd like.
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We run a trial
A small lot first, so you can check colour, taste and texture before committing to a full run.
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Intake and ozone wash
Produce is sorted, trimmed and cleaned in an industrial ozone wash. Every batch, no exceptions.
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Low-temperature drying
Slow, controlled drying under strict thermal limits. It takes longer. That's the point: colour and aroma stay in.
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Milling, if you want powder
Heat-controlled milling and sieving to your mesh size, so the powder doesn't cook on its way out.
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Batch checks
Every batch is checked for colour, aroma, moisture and microbial load before it's packed.
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Packed and dispatched
In bulk, or in retail-ready packs with your label. Sealed, labelled and on its way to you.
What we dry
The ones we run most often.
Not on the list? Ask. We'll run a trial and tell you straight how it turned out.
Fruits
- Orangeinfusions, garnish, bakery
- Pineapplesnack mixes, granola
- Applecereal, trail mix, tea blends
- Dragon fruitsmoothie bowls, wellness blends
- Kiwiconfectionery, snack packs
Vegetables
- Carrotsoup mixes, seasoning
- Beetrootnatural colour, beverages
- Mushroombroths, ready-meal bases
- Coconut sproutnutraceuticals
- Okrasnack chips, seasoning
Leaves
- Curry leafseasoning, spice blends
- Moringapowders, wellness teas
- Mintbeverages, infusions
- Tulsiherbal tea blends
- Spinachfortified powders
Flowers
- Hibiscusherbal teas, beverages
- Roseconfectionery, blends
- Butterfly peacolour-changing drinks
- Avarampootraditional wellness teas
- Chamomilecalming infusions
Powders
- Bananababy food, smoothies, bakery
- Moringasupplements, teas
- Beetrootcolouring, sports nutrition
- Orange peelbakery, confectionery
- Tomatosoups, sauces, ready mixes
Made to your recipe
- Herbal teascustom blends, private label
- Fruit & veg maltsnutrition drinks
- Ready-to-cook graviesretail ready-meals
- Ready-to-eat idiyappamconvenience meals
- Chutney baseshotels, retail
Colour is the easiest way to see what heat did to food.
Push produce too hot or too fast and it browns. The same heat that dulls the colour flattens the aroma too. We dry slowly, at low temperature, so a beetroot powder still looks like beetroot.
Swatches are approximate. Ask us for real samples.
- Beetroot
- Moringa
- Tomato
- Butterfly pea
- Orange peel
- Curry leaf
- Hibiscus
- Banana
The unit
What's inside the building.
Koel Dehydrates
Coimbatore unit
- Capacity
- Up to 10 tonnes of processing a month
- Cleaning
- Industrial ozone wash, every batch
- Drying
- Low-temperature, controlled. Slow on purpose.
- Milling
- Heat-controlled, sieved to your mesh size
- Batch checks
- Colour, aroma, moisture, microbial
- Formats
- 10+: whole, slices, flakes, granules, powder
- Packing
- Bulk, or retail-ready under your label
- Customers
- Food brands across 8 states in India
- Confidentiality
- Your recipes stay yours. NDA on request.
- R&D
- Founder-led. Food technologist, trained at DFRL (DRDO) and CSIR-CFTRI
Come and see it.
If you're going to trust us with your product, you should see where it's made. Call ahead and we'll show you round.
86, Villankurichi Road,Ramakrishnapuram, Ganapathy,
Coimbatore 641006, Tamil Nadu How we look after quality and food safety
Who runs it
Koel Dehydrates is run by Devasenapathi Ilango, a food technologist who trained at the Defence Food Research Laboratory (DRDO) and went on to applied research at CSIR-CFTRI in Mysuru.
Years in product development kept turning up the same problem. Most dried ingredients are made for speed: hot air and short cycles get the water out fast, and the colour and aroma leave with it.
Koel was set up to do the opposite. Drying is slow and low-temperature, and every batch is checked. The unit now makes products for other brands too, from a first trial batch to a monthly contract, and the founder stays involved in product development from the first conversation.
Devasenapathi IlangoFounder and food technologist
DFRL (DRDO)CSIR-CFTRI, MysuruKoel Dehydrates
FAQ
Questions people ask on the first call.
Do I need to send my own raw material?
No. Send your own produce, or tell us what you need and we'll source it. Either way, we agree the spec before anything goes into the dryer.
Is there a minimum quantity?
It depends on the product and the format. Tell us what you have in mind and we'll say honestly whether it's worth running. If you're not sure yet, start with a trial batch.
Can you pack it under my brand?
Yes. We pack in bulk for manufacturers, or in retail-ready packs with your label for brands.
Will you keep my recipe confidential?
Yes. Recipes, specifications and brand details you share stay confidential and are used only for your work. We're happy to sign an NDA before you share anything.
Will every batch come out the same?
That's what controlled drying is for. Once your product is set up, the process stays fixed, and every batch is checked for colour, aroma, moisture and microbial load before it's packed.
Can you help me develop the product first?
Yes. Formulation and process advice comes straight from our founder, a trained food technologist. For first-time brands it's often the most useful part.
My product isn't on your list. Can you still do it?
Probably. Ask us. We'll run a small trial and tell you straight how it turned out.
How do we get started?
Send a WhatsApp message or write to sales@koelfoods.com with the product, the format and a rough quantity. We'll reply with questions, and with a quote once we understand the job.
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