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Process of making potato products

US4140801A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 27, 1977
Grant dateFeb 20, 1979
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Expiry dateJun 27, 1997

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA23L19/19
  • WIPO fieldFood chemistry
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

There are disclosed prefermented, dehydrated potatoes having a low moisture content and a relatively low tendency to brown during frying. Potatoes of undesirably high reducing sugar content are fermented to lower their reducing sugar level before they are extensively dehydrated to a low moisture content, and the resulting products may exhibit less browning upon subsequent rehydration and frying than potatoes whose reducing sugar content is relatively high and is decreased by fermentation after being highly dehydrated to the low moisture content. Also, the potatoes which are fermented before dehydration exhibit a good rate of reducing sugar decline during fermentation, and may have less yeasty or fermentation taste upon frying, than potatoes which are fermented after drying to a low moisture level. Fermentation before extensive dehydration can be adequately and readily achieved even though the potatoes have a relatively high ratio of reducing sugar to total sugar.

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