-A lot of products that can be made from sour cherries.

-Pie filling is probably the largest product for sour cherries.

-Pastries, cookies, muffins and other baking are very common and are expanding as society continues to move towards more healthy food.
 

• There has been a lot of research done on the health benefits of eating cherries and it has been found that sour cherries are high in antioxidants that reduce risk of heart disease and anti-inflammatory compounds that help reduce pain of arthritis.

• With these benefits being widely publicised and a more health oriented market, the demand for sour cherry products are on the rise.

-Dwarf sour cherry also makes a nice, sweet, dark wine but unfortunately it doesn't have the shelf life of a grape wine, which is the main reason cherry wine is not very common in the market.

-The dwarf sour cherry is superior for processing to other sour cherries in the way that dwarf sour cherries have dark red juice while cultivars like 'Montmorency' have clear, pink juice that requires dying when being processed.

-Since dwarf sour cherries have dark juice, there is that much more of an open market because these cherries can be processed organically without any dyes added to it.

-Overall, there is a lot of potential for dwarf sour cherry in the processing sector. Dwarf sour cherry is superior to the traditional sour cherries in many ways which give it potential to succeed in the competitive market of cherry processing.

Processing Equipment Manufacturing Companies

Dunkley International has laser-vision sorting equipment, pitter and a wide variety of cherry processing equipment.

Precision Stainless Inc. has stainless steel food quality tanks.

GFI Stainless has heat exchangers, tanks and kettles.

Virtual Orchard has links for juice, wine and cider making equipment.