Banana starch
AssigneeBanana Products Corporation
InventorsJaouad Fichtali, Yaw J. Owusu-Ansah, Peter Chang
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Abstract
A high quality starch, wholesome to be used for food applications is produced from green unpeeled bananas though a cost efficient, commercially viable process. The process steps involve an optional initial comminution, lye milling of the bananas, holding the milled solution for a minimum of 1 hour, sieving to remove pomace and fiber, concentrating, neutralizing the starch solution, dewatering and drying. The final product is of very high quality and devoid of detectable pesticide and/or fungicide residues.
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A process for producing banana starch wherein the input feed is unpeeled green bananas and comprising the steps of lye milling of the green bananas, holding the milled banana slurry for a period of time sufficient to promote release of starch from the milled bananas, separating fiber and pomace from the milled banana slurry to form a starch slurry, concentrating, washing and neutralizing the starch slurry, dewatering the neutralized starch slurry, and drying the starch to obtain banana starch free from detectable pesticides and/or fungicides.
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