How to make good quality tapioca flour?

Tapioca, one major source of carbohydrates, is a plant dated from the South America. Because of its as edible crop, it is extensively cultivated as the staple crop in tropical and subtropical regions as Africa and Asia. According to some relevant statistics, it is said that global production of tapioca root has been up to 278 million tonnes per year. But, if fresh tapioca could not be process into products after harvesting within 24 hours, they will easily go bad and lead to waste. Therefore, people in local often process tapioca in order to avoid wasting food or get extra family income.

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Tapioca is frequently processed into flour, garri and chips in south Africa for its simple processing steps, lost production cost and large sale market as well as easy storage. Of course, you also can process tapioca into starch if your budget is adequate for tapioca processing business.

When it comes to tapioca flour processing, people all know how it process in Africa. But do you know how to process high quality tapioca flour? Today, Henan Jinrui company, a manufacturer of 10+ year production experience of tapioca flour processing machine will introduce to you.

Dry method to tapioca flour processing

For processing tapioca flour, you can adopts two common methods: one is dry method. Another one is wet method. For dry method, you can process tapioca into chips firstly, and then dry the tapioca chips. Finally, you just need to grind it into powder. That’s the tapioca flour. However, dry method only can process normal tapioca flour with color is a little yellow. And it will waste much flour during processing. Besides, this tapioca flour is hard to be sold at good price in the market. Fortunately, another processing method called wet tapioca flour processing method can help you to achieve improvement.

Wet method for tapioca flour processing

Wet tapioca flour processing method is normally divided into three main parts, including washing parts, processing parts, drying part. First of all, you should grind tapioca into tapioca pulp, then dewater it into tapioca cake. At last, dry tapioca cake. Henan Jinrui company often equips flash dryer in tapioca flour processing plant to dry tapioca flour totally. In this way, you can get high quality tapioca flour, because the flash dryer can dry the tapioca flour within 2-3seconds. Moreover, modern tapioca flour processing machine also can increase the material contact area when you grind tapioca into tapioca pulp, which will not influence the final quality of tapioca flour.

All in all, Henan Jinrui company recommend that you process tapioca flour by modern tapioca flour processing machine. Henan Jinrui company has made many tapioca projects in Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Congo, Cameroon etc. We also installed tapioca processing machines in other countries. We are professional in installation and technology for tapioca flour processing machine. If you have any needs, pleases contact with Henan jinrui company timely.