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How a Spud Becomes a Snack - Part 1
The steps involved in preparing and processing a raw potato
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Pet Food Processing Principles and Possibilities
Consumers appreciate the quality in the food they eat, and even though unable to say it, so do their pets.
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Improving End-of-Line Packaging Efficiencies
Q&A: An expert’s insight into snack food vertical form fill seal (VFFS) bagmaking.
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Pivotal Principles for Processing Potatoes
Q&A: Discussing the industry’s most advanced frying systems and industry-leading innovations in filtration, heating, and oil management.
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Tips for Working With Different Coatings for Prepared Foods
Coatings, such as batter and breadings, deliver a desirable product appearance and texture while locking in the food’s flavor and moisture. Following is some insight on working with the most common types of food coatings to get the best results from your ingredients and your coating equipment.
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Industrial Frying: How to Maximize Cooking Oil Life
Cooking oil is a key component of food processing, and taking steps to delay its degradation can result in reduced waste, costs, and risk of creating poor tasting food products. In this article, we discuss optimizing cooking oil life in industrial frying applications.
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Utilizing Conveying Systems in Potato Production
Blake Svejkovsky shares his knowledge of conveying systems and how to apply conveying solutions in potato production lines.
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Add a Taste of India to Your Snack Food Line With Namkeen Snacks
With a perception from consumers that legume-based snacks are a healthier alternative to other snacks due to a higher nutrient content, snack food manufacturers are looking at the use of legumes as a base ingredient for creative and flavorful snack products.
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A Guide to Processing Corn Products from Raw Corn to Masa to Formed Products
We discuss what is involved in corn preparation, masa making, and corn formation for a myriad of corn-based products, such as tortilla chips, corn chips, taco shells, tostadas, and tortillas.
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Types of Ingredients Used to Coat Prepared Food Products
The coating process has evolved greatly since its commercial introduction with seasoned breading mix for seafood in the late 1930s. Coatings deliver a desirable product appearance, texture, and taste, while locking in flavor and moisture. Today, every food imaginable has been coated, and commercial coating formulations have become more sophisticated and elaborate.
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Coating Application Methods to Make Prepared Food Products
Food coating equipment has advanced and improved the way it handles the variety of available coatings and coats all types of products, from fragile to frozen. Food coating application methods vary depending on a variety of factors, and the right machinery will ensure consistent and accurate application for a better product.
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Nut Processing Methods and How to Create Exciting and Unique Products
As demand for healthy and more nutritional snacks continues to grow, the variety of value-added nut snack options positioned as a ‘healthier’ option have increased as snack processors look to create unique flavors/recipes, coatings, and blends that brands use to attract consumer attention.
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