the quality of greek land

vegetable products cultivation - standardization - distributor

Who is sunfruits?

Our Company B. MILINIS & D MILINIS OE distributes fruits and vegetables in Greece and abroad since 1987 with headquarters and Installations in Nea Pagia Halkidiki.

The company operates in the rural packing of certain agricultural products produced either by its own land either by other producers round Greece. We carefully select our producers taking in account the quality of their agricultural products.

Basic operations of our company are:

Providing high quality products
Reliability to our customers
Fast distibution

2011 was a landmark year for our company creating special modern cooling units and secondly replacing the basic equipment of our facilities in order to offer high quality services. The modernization included the consecutive training of our staff with all modern standards and ultimately provide high quality products for our clients.

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Company B. & D. Milina Milinis OE has modern facilities and installations in the Village Nea Playa in Halkidiki.

The expansion of facilities and mondern equipments in 2011 found our company by:

modern refrigeration units
special fresh and modern sorting equipment
landscaped area dump
Special machines for transport, storage and loading of products
Special service vehicles production
Security systems and ensuring final products is concerned

Guarantee forms a long-term presence in the area of standardization and export of agricultural products, experience and reliability towards the recipients of our products, our customers !

Production process

Production process of packaged sun fruites commodities starts from the farm.

Company B. & D. Milinis owns a large number of ectares of land which produces our main fruits products. Besides our production process and due to increasing demand of sales our company's supplied is supply additional goods from selected producers throughout Greece.

Our experienced staff looks for the most high class quality products throughout the country, trying to give the best result to its customers.

After receiving the product from the fields and its producers it is the grading procedure following sorted by a trained personel of our company in the triage area. The packaging of selected products eventually end up in special refrigerators at temperatures keep them fresh until their transfer to recipients wholesalers in Greece and abroad.

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The harvest season and standardizing packing procedure in our installations of apricots taking place from early May to late June .

History of Apricot

Apricot ( more correctly " apricot " ) is the fruit of apricot (scientific name prunus armeniaca) family of rosacea .

Originates from Northern China, Manchuria and Mongolia and came to Europe from Armenia from where it got its name. Its cultivation has been known in China since 2,200 BC and apparently transferred to Greece by Alexander the Great , it is not mentioned by Theophrastus (400 BC). [1 ] Dioscorides reported the Armenian apricots as apples, because the origin of the plant. [2 ] In Cyprus and the Dodecanese call it apricot , while in other parts of Greece use the name zardelia .

The name ' apricot ' probably came from the latin praecocia meaning " early " because it presents early maturation. From the Greek name derives Arabic berkuk.

Fleshy , globular abdomen with grooved seam. The core ( kernel ) is woody and inside containing 1-2 spores with a bitter taste like almonds and used in farmakopoiia.To fleshy pericarp is succulent and delicious , sweet and has a yellow-orange color . The exterior of apricot ( peel ) is thin, usually fluffy and yellow in color with some red spots on the front side.

It is rich in vitamin A. It also contains vitamins C, B1 , B2 and natural sugar . Also apricots are rich in fiber. Apricots are consumed as fresh fruit. It can also be eaten dried , make jam , compote , used in confectionery and make liqueur and juice .