What are cassava granules properties? How to transform cassava into cassava starch granule?

Cassava granules are the starch extracted from cassava, it has the following properties:

Appearance and color: Cassava starch granules are white, colorless, and tasteless, which is suitable for making desserts such as crystal soup dumplings and taro balls.

Viscosity and Stability: Cassava starch granules have high viscosity, are transparent after cooking, and have good stability, which makes them very suitable for food processing.

Cassava starch granules

Application areas: Cassava starch granules are widely used in the food industry, including traditional pastries and candies, as well as in the non-food industry. In food processing, it is often used to make pearls in pearl milk tea.

Characteristics: Cassava starch granule is characterized by high cold-melt stability, which is suitable for paste hanging, sizing, and thickening.

With the increased demand for cassava starch granules in the market, the large-scale industrial processing of high-quality cassava starch granules has been improved. Among them, the wet extraction method for cassava starch granules because of better quality has been recognized by most consumers, this article mainly introduces the steps of wet processing and the equipment needed.

The wet cassava starch granules processing process is mainly divided into three important stages, cleaning section, processing section, and drying section.

Wet cassava starch granules processing process

First is the cleaning section, the main role of the cleaning section is to remove the cassava attached to the soil, as well as some of the weeds and so on in the picking process. Through the dry sieve, sieve off most of the weeds stones, and so on. Then into the paddle washing machine, through the mixing and water flow to remove the sediment.

Cassava starch granules processing machine

Next is the processing section. The cassava will be cut off through the cutting machine and then enter the grinding machine to become cassava pulp, the crushing rate will directly determine the rate of cassava starch granule. Then the Desander into the centrifugal sieve, to remove most of the cassava residue, and the rest of the cassava residue will also be removed by the fine fiber sieve. Next, it enters the hydrocyclone station for thickening, washing, and refining. Usually, the cyclone needs 10-18 stages, which are chosen according to the different starch quality and output required. Finally, through the scraper centrifuge to remove most of the water into the drying section.

Finally, there is a drying stage, after the moisture is reduced to less than 14% by the airflow dryer, then it is sieved by the airflow cooling system, and after that, it is packed by the automatic packing machine.

The above is the whole process of wet processing of cassava starch granules and the required equipment, if you have any other questions you can contact us at any time.