Potato flakes are a form of dehydrated potato product made by pressing cooked mashed potatoes onto a drum drier to form sheets that are then broken up and ground. Potato flakes can be used anywhere mashed potatoes are called for. They are commonly used in instant mashed potatoes and other commercially available products. Potato flakes extend shelf life of baked goods and enhance creamy frozen desserts, gravies, and chocolate milk as a thickener. They can also add taste as a thickener, binder, baking ingredient, or in formed and packed snacks. The market for potato flakes is growing due to increasing consumption of convenience and snack foods.

1. Potato Flakes
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2. Dehydrated Potato Products
• Potato flakes are the most important form of
dehydrated potato products, which also include
potato granules, pellets, powder, shredded and
sliced potato.
Dehydrated potato flakes are
• made by pressing cooked mashed potatoes onto
a drum drier, which forms a sheet that can
be broken up and ground to the required density.
Potato flakes can be used anywhere, where
one would use mashed potatoes

3. Many Uses
Potato Flakes used in commercially available
products, like instant mashed potatoes,
croquettes, pasta and fabricated snacks. As a
thickener, they enhance creamy frozen
desserts, gravies and chocolate milk. Like other
dehydrated potato products, they extend the
shelf life of baked goods. Potato flakes are
functionally like fresh potatoes could be used for
making traditional snacks like samosa, dosa,
tikki, paranthas etc.

4. How the potato flakes
can add Taste to Food
• As a Thickener As a replacement for cornstarch or wheat flour,
dehydrated potato flour, flakes and granules add volume to soups,
stews, sauces, and broths.
• As a Binder The starch in dehydrated potato products makes them
perfect for use as a binding agent in meat, fish or vegetable patties,
sausages and cakes
• As a Baking Ingredient Because of their subtle earthy flavor,
dehydrated potato products are popular in baked goods such as
breads, cakes, muffins, etc. Moreover, they retain water better than
substitute flours, increasing the shelf life of bakery goods.
• As an Ingredient for formed products Formed product like Burgers,
Patties etc can be conveniently made from potato flakes
• As an Ingredient for packed snacks Long shelf snacks like extruded
products, fabricated chips are made from potato snacks

5. Growth Potentials
• Increasing consumption of ready to cook and ready to eat
food products. Increasing consumption of fast food such as
French fries and other potato based snacks items in all
classes of people is boosting the market for potato flakes
and powder.
• Changing societal trends, increasing nuclear families, aging
population and people looking for more convenient
snacking and pleasure food with less indulgence.
• Indian snack food industry is one of the largest snack
markets in the world and is presently estimated at Rs.1530
crores and is expected to grow at 10%. Potato powder and
flakes contribute around 20 to 25% of this market.

6. Manufacturing Process
The manufacturing process for potato
flakes/powder includes following processes:
Washing / Sorting & Grading of Potatoes,
Peeling / second washing, Cooking, Pulping
and Drum drying of Pulp to produce flakes,
Slicing, Precooking, Cooling & Grinding , flakes
into Potato powder Packaging in moisture
proof multi layer plastic pouches

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