What is the process of making banana powder? It usually includes the following key steps:
- Raw material selection and cleaning: Remove rotten or diseased fruits. Use clean water or food-grade disinfectant to clean the surface to remove mud and microbial contamination.
- Peeling and slicing: Peel and slice the bananas and cut them into small, even pieces for easier processing.
- Blanching: Blanching the sliced bananas in hot water for 2-3 minutes to inhibit enzymatic browning, preserve color, and remove some microorganisms.
- Drying: Hot air drying is used to reduce the moisture content of banana slice to a safe storage level. Hot air drying is usually carried out at 60-80℃.
- Crushing and Screening: The dried banana slice are ground into powder by a crusher, and screening equipment is used to ensure that the powder particles are uniform and meet the standard requirements.
Banana powder production equipment
Banana powder production is completed by an automatic banana powder production line, which includes the main equipment such as washing machine, slicing machine, blanching machine, drying machine, crushing machine, screening machine, etc.
Issues that need to be paid attention to during the production of banana powder:
- The processing environment must meet the food production hygiene standards, and the staff must wear sanitary protection equipment.
- Clean and disinfect the equipment regularly to prevent cross contamination.
- Raw material quality control, select pest-free, fresh, and moderately ripe bananas, avoid pulp contamination when peeling, and slice evenly to ensure consistent drying.
- When drying, the appropriate temperature and humidity should be controlled to prevent the loss of nutrients due to high temperature or insufficient drying due to low temperature.
- Crushing and screening accuracy, adjust the parameters of the crushing equipment to make the powder particle size meet market demand. Avoid powder agglomeration during screening and improve fluidity.