How to make yam flour?

Yam tubers are popular and have a wide range of planting in Africa. Local people want to add value in yam tubers, so yam flour processing is becoming more popular in recent years. How to make yam flour? Next we will introduce two methods of making yam flour to you.

3D flow of yam flour production

Making yam flour at home

The traditional method of making yam flour is processing at home, which totally includes 9 steps. Here is the processing flow:

Cleaning: Clean to remove sand and dirt after harvesting from farms.

Peeling: Peel thick layers by peeling machine with high capacity.

Slicing: Slice peeled yam tubers into uniform size chips. This is to enable thechips to dry faster at the same time and temperature.

Cleaning: Clean/Rinse chips with wateragain.

Drying: Dry yam chips in a cabinet dryer. Ensure yam chips are properly dried.

Milling: Mill dried chips into a fine flour using a hammer mill.

Sieving: Sieve to remove particlesand get high quality yam flour.

Two methods of making yam flour

Making yam flour by machinery

Due to the high requirement on quality and capacity of qualified yam flour, the advanced yam flour making method, making yam flour by machinery tends to be a popular and common way for modern factories. The mechanical method process raw yam into yam flour through several sections.

Yam flour processing machines

Cleaning section: A dry sieve and a paddle washer will be configured to remove and wash the impurities on the raw yam tubers; a stainless steel peeling machine will peel the layers to ensure the taste and purity of final yam flour.

Processing section: Cleaned yam tubers will enter a grinding plant, the rasper, to be grind into yam slurry, which later will be dehydrated by a filter press.

Dryingsection: The dehydrated yam cake then will be conveyed to a flash dryer, in which the air flow with high temperature will quickly and efficiently dry the flour.

Sieving section: The sifter sieve will screen the coarse powder out and ensure the fineness requirement of yam flour products. And a packing machine is available for different clients.

This is the two methods of making yam flour. If you want to see the local yam flour making line and the running video of yam flour making machines, welcome to contact us! Our project manager send some files for your reference!