Appropriate Techniques for Development and Manufacture of Low-Cost Potato-Based Food Products in Developing Countries

摘要

Peru's International Potato Center has developed equipment and techniques for the production of low-cost potato-based food products. The study focuses on the feasibility of household- or community-scale processing of a dry powder mix called M-G, based on potato and extended with cereals and dry legumes. After an overview of the potato as a local Peruvian food, the report offers a brief theoretical description of product development. A step-by-step description of the development, testing, and processing of M-6 details: M-6 ingredients; consumer and nutritionist responses to the mix; market prices for raw materials; cost per kilo. Costing and artificial drying techniques are then discussed, and diagrams of drying equipment are provided.