How is cassava flour processed?

Cassava flour is a product produced from fresh cassava, which is also a daily food material for African people.  Especially recent years, with encouragement of government many countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, people start to pay attention to the cassava flour business. But do you know how is cassava flour processed?

cassava flour processing flow chart

After cassava harvesting, it needs cleaning, peeling by machine or manual work according to different capacities, and the grinding into cassava pulp, If large capacity,it also needs desanding machine to remove the sand. For traditional cassava flour processing no need because manual work can peel completely.
For cassava pulp dewatering, it needs hydraulic presser or filter press, after dewatering, the moisture will be around 45%, which can be dry directly with the cassava flour flash dryer. The flash dry can dry the wet casava flour into dry cassava flour in 1~2 seconds,Just packaging it after drying, it will be ok.

cassava flour processing flow chart

The above flow chart is about wet technology of how is cassava flour processed. If you want to learn more details about the cassava flour process technology, please welcome to contact us directly.