The meaning of puffed food:
Puffed food is a new type of food developed internationally in recent years. It uses grains, beans, potatoes, vegetables, etc. as raw materials, and is processed by puffing equipment to produce a wide variety of foods with exquisite appearance, rich nutrition, and crispy and delicious food.
Due to different uses and equipment, puffed food is divided into 3 types.
One is the use of extruders to produce snacks using corn and potatoes as raw materials.
The second is to produce vegetable protein food (vegetable meat) with vegetable protein as raw material by using extruder.
The third is to use cereals, beans or potatoes as raw materials to make staple food after puffing. In addition to trial production of an indirect heating puffing machine, a variety of puffed foods are also trial-produced with refined grain puffing powder.
Advantages of puffed food:
1. Improved taste and taste: After the coarse grains are puffed, the coarse hard tissue structure is destroyed, and the coarse grains can no longer be seen. The taste of the coarse grains cannot be eaten, the taste is soft, and the taste is improved and delicious.
2. Convenient to eat: After puffing, coarse grains have become cooked food, which can be directly brewed with boiling water, or made into compressed food, or can be made into a variety of foods after a little processing. Easy to eat and save time. As long as the food sector or factories, mines, enterprises, institutions, and schools supply puffed powder, it can be processed and prepared in the family or collective canteens to become a truly convenient food.
3. The preservation rate and digestibility of nutrients are high; the preservation rate of nutrients is high during the puffing process. The preservation rate and digestibility of the puffed food are relatively high, which means that the puffing process has no effect on the nutrition of the food, and its digestibility is higher than that of the unpuffed.
4. Easy to store: After the grain is expanded, it is equivalent to a high temperature sterilization. The moisture content of the expanded powder is reduced to less than 10%. Such low moisture limits the growth of insects and molds and enhances their stability in storage. , Suitable for longer-term storage, improve its edible quality.