What quantity of dry cassava chips do I need to produce 1 ton of cassava flour?

Milling dry cassava chips to cassava flour is very a traditional method of cassava flour preparation. Due to the lower price and easier operation, it is very popular in African areas. Then what quantity of dry cassava chips do I need to produce 1 ton of cassava flour?

Generally speaking, it depends on quality of dry cassava chips that you get. Higher quality of dry cassava chips, more output of cassava flour. Normally 1.1-1.3 tons dry cassava chips can make 1 ton cassava flour. The whole process of cassava flour production through milling dry cassava chips mainly consists of cleaning and peeling, chipping, drying, grinding and sieving sections. The main equipment configured in the line are cassava peeler, cassava slicer and cassava flour fine milling machine. Some clients would like to purchase a whole line which not only supports the cassava chips production for animal feeds usage but assists to process small-capacity cassava flour, while others may buy dry cassava chips at the market directly to make cassava flour.

Milling dry cassava chips into cassava flour

Cassava flour boasts a large market, widely used in food production like bread, biscuit, beer, etc. Besides the dry method we introduced before, there is still a wet cassava flour processing method that means transforming fresh cassava tubers into high-standard cassava flour through a series of processes, covering cassava tubers cleaning, washing and peeling, cutting, crushing, de-sanding, dewatering, drying and sieving. By adopting this wet method, 1 ton cassava flour can be produced with about 4 tons fresh cassava roots. Compared with the dry one, the wet can realize automatic and continuous production, and the contact time between materials and air is short, ensuring the whiteness of the finished product.

Wet cassava processing flow

Hope our introduce can banish your concerns on the quantity of dry cassava chips needed to produce 1 ton cassava flour. No matter you want to produce cassava flour by dry or wet processing methods, if you want to conduct this business, welcome to contact us! As a professional manufacturer of cassava flour machines, Henan Jinrui can provide all types of cassava flour processing machines.