Department of Processing and Agricultural Structures, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
In India, potato is generally processed into chips. Main waste products in a potato processing plants are starch - lost during blanching, undersized chips and edgings - lost during slicing. The plant selected for study was Pepsi Foods Ltd. at Channo in district Sangrur of Punjab. Investigations were made to estimate the various wastages during different unit operations of potato chips processing and enhance the profitability of the plant by utilization of these wastages i.e. starch recovery from the blancher effluent and potato flour manufacture from the slicer waste. Cost analysis for these processes is also presented.
Byproduct utilization, Potato flour, Potato processing plant, Potato starch, Profitability
