Natural Food Colorant Purple Sweet Potato Powder

What is purple sweet potato powder ?

Purple potato powder  is made from fresh and high quality purple potatoes, peeled and dried. It retains all the dry materials of purple potato except the skin: protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and dietary fibre. The colour, aroma, taste and texture of rehydrated purple potato flour are the same as those of fresh purple potato steamed and mashed.

Purple Sweet Potato powder Product processing :

 Raw materials of purple potatoes are cleaned→peeled→shredded and sliced→colour protection→drying→crushed (moisture measurement)→packaging

①Washing: It must be clean, which is related to the final quality of the product.

② Peeling: Use bamboo knife to remove the outer skin of purple potato, especially the concave part of the skin of purple potato.

Slicing or shredding: cut the peeled purple potatoes into chips or diced potatoes of certain specifications with vegetable slicer.

④Colour protection: Use salt to make a 0.5% solution, and soak the cut purple crisps or diced potato in it for several minutes.

⑤Drying:Dry with drying equipment to ensure the hygiene of the product, and pay attention to the temperature, usually between 45~50℃, the drying time can be determined according to the size of crisps or shredded, so that the final moisture is below 6%.

⑥Crushing, packaging:The dried purple potato, crushed with hammer blade crusher, so that the fineness of purple potato powder is about 80 mesh.

Product Application :

Purple potato powder in the frozen industry is mainly used for dumplings, frozen cutter and frozen buns. 120 mesh of purple potato flour can be used for dumpling fillings, frozen to cut and frozen buns are mainly used to replace part of the wheat flour in the production process, while non-frozen steamed buns and cutter can be added to the purple potato flour. 200 mesh of purple potato flour can be used mainly in the production of frozen dumplings, and it can be used as a kind of raw material to add to the purple potato flour in ice cream. It can also be used as a raw material to be added into purple potato ice-cream.

Purple potato powder is widely used in the baking industry, mainly used to replace part of the wheat flour, as a raw material to add in the food. 120 mesh purple potato flour in the market above the more common purple potato bread, purple potato toast, purple potato biscuits, purple potato anhydrous cake and purple potato biscuits, etc. 200 mesh can be used for bread surface spraying, so that is beautiful and nutritious. At the same time, another great use of purple potato flour is used to make moon cake filling, whether it is Cantonese moon cake or other moon cake can use purple potato flour to make filling.