This video demonstrates how almonds are pre-cleaned, hulled/shelled and processed at a California almond facility.

This video was taken at RPAC and Perreira Almond Processing in Los Banos, California, and shows how almonds are pre-cleaned (including the de-sticker, de-stoner and de-twigger), hulled and shelled, inspected for quality control and processed into different sized almonds to be packed.

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Video Chapters:
0:00 California almond processing overview
0:10 Unloading almonds at the facility and they begin a pre-cleaning process
0:29 De-sticker machine to get rid of large sticks
0:46 De-stoner machine to get rid of stones
0:52 De-twigger machine to get rid of small twigs
1:06 Almonds go into a storage tank
1:33 The almonds go through machines to loosen the hulls
2:35 Almond kernels are taken to the meat deck to further separate out the kernels from everything else
2:57 Quality Control for size and foreign materials and defects
3:25 Storage
3:44 Almond optical sorting machines
4:28 Separating almonds based on size to be packed
4:50 Bulk bins are packed

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