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Product Overview
Potato flour is a dehydrated product made from potatoes through a series of processes including cleaning, peeling, cutting, blanching, steaming, mud making, drying, crushing, and sieving. It retains all the dry matter of potatoes except for the potato skin, including nutrients such as starch, dietary fiber, vitamin C, potassium, and almost no fat. According to the production process and product status, potato flour can be divided into granular flour and snowflake flour.
• Product Characteristics
1. Comprehensive nutrition:Potato flour is rich in dietary fiber, vitamin C, minerals, and is a natural food ingredient with low fat and high fiber content.
2. Excellent processing performance:It has good water absorption, thickening, water holding and freeze-thaw stability, and is suitable for various food processing scenarios.
3. Good rehydration ability:After rehydration, it can quickly return to the state of fresh mashed potatoes, preserving the taste and flavor of the potatoes.
4. Multifunctionality:It can be consumed directly or used as a raw material for various foods such as baked goods, puffed foods, frozen foods, etc.
• Main Purpose
Potato flour is widely used in the following fields due to its unique nutritional and processing characteristics:
1. Food processing:Used for the production of baked goods such as bread, cakes, cookies, as well as meat products, frozen foods, frozen dough, etc.
2. Health products:As a nutritional supplement or functional ingredient, used to enhance immunity and promote digestive health.
3. Beverage formula:Used for developing low sugar, low-fat functional beverages.
4. Instant food:Develop instant soup ingredients, frozen pastries, and other ready to eat products.
Potato Cake
French Fries
Potato Chips
Potato
bread
Potato balls
• Market Conditions
In recent years, with the increasing demand for healthy food by consumers and advances in food processing technology, the potato flour market has shown a rapid growth trend. From 2019 to 2023, the compound annual growth rate of China's potato flour market reached 7.5%, and it is expected that the market size will exceed 12 billion yuan by 2024. In the future, with the advancement of technological innovation and customized services, the application of potato flour in functional foods, ready to eat foods, and other fields will be further deepened.
• Development Trend
1. Technological innovation:Develop efficient and energy-saving drying technologies, such as heat pump drying, vacuum freeze-drying, etc., to improve production efficiency and product quality.
2. Customized services:Develop functional potato flour products to meet the nutritional needs of specific populations, such as vegetarians and athletes.
3. Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development:Adopting green production processes to reduce energy consumption and meet environmental protection requirements.
Potato flour, as a natural and healthy food ingredient, is becoming an indispensable and important component in the food industry due to its excellent properties, wide application fields, and continuously growing market demand.
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