Is tapioca flour the same as cassava flour? How is tapioca flour processed?

In Africa and equator around countries have many cassava, also called tapioca, which is daily food in local. Tapioca can process into garri, flour and starch to meet daily needs. So tapioca flour is same with cassava flour, just has different name. And how to process tapioca flour?

Normally, there are two methods to process tapioca flour, one is dry method, and the other is wet method.

Dry method to process tapioca flour

Dry method uses dry tapioca chips as raw material. When processing tapioca flour, people will firstly cut fresh tapioca into pieces and then dry it under the sun or by machine. After tapioca chips are fully drying, they can be grated into flour. By this method, it can save cost to get tapioca flour easily. The quality of final flour is not so well, however. It will be not only yellow but also contain something mixed as tapioca fiber, layers and sands, etc. Besides, If you want to export such yellow flour from your country, it will be not easy because of its narrow market. But white and good quality tapioca flour will be more prevail in flour market. So, how can we get white and good quality tapioca flour?

Wet flour processing technology, another method to extract flour from tapioca, can help you get that flour. More than that, wet tapioca flour processing method is also popular in current tapioca flour processing industry. This way processes tapioca flour through particular processing technology and flows which avoid tapioca flour become yellow and contain tapioca fiber.

Currently, the plan of tapioca flour processing machine provided to client by Henan Jinrui company also adopts this wet tapioca flour processing technology. The processing flows as following: cleaning, peeling, grating, desanding, pressing and drying. Normally, we divide it to three part: cleaning, processing and drying.

Tapioca flour processing steps

Firstly is cleaning part, it needs two stages machine, dry sieve and paddle washer. Both of two machines are used to clean tapioca dust and remove grass. For processing part, we Henan Jinrui company will match two stages grating machine to grate tapioca thoroughly. One is cutting machine to cut tapioca into several tubers, and second one is rasper machine, one important machine to improve final flour capacity, which is to grate tapioca into tapioca milk. Then drying part, Henan Jinrui company uses flash dryer which is a negative presser design to ensure no leaking.

Speak of here, I believe you have learned about the two method of tapioca flour processing, and know exactly which method will help you to get good tapioca flour and its processing flow. If you are interested in Henan Jinrui company’s tapioca flour processing machine, you can contact us at any time.