What are the by products of cassava processing？

As we all know that fresh cassava can be processed into starch, flour, garri, chips etc. While during the cassava processing line, there are by products collection at the same time. Some customers are curious about what are the by products of cassava processing, what is their usage and whether these by products can be used for making more profit. If you are also interested in this question, please read this article.

Cassava processing by products

The first by products of cassava processing is cassava peels. No matter how do you process cassava, it is essential to remove the cassava peels. After the cassava peels be dried, it can be used for making animal feed, thus you can gain extra profit. In addition, it can also be used as fuel for stove or steam boiler or other use.

Cassava peels

The second by products of cassava processing is cassava residue, whose main content of residue is fiber and other nutrient substance like protein, fat etc. Especially for cassava starch processing, fiber must be removed from the slurry to ensure the cassava starch purity. For the fiber or residue, normally, it needs to match a dewatering machine to dry it, and then it can be used as animal feed, fish feed etc.

The third by products of cassava processing is the starch milk. For cassava flour or garri processing, we mainly use wet method, which means after grinding the fresh cassava, we needs to dewater cassava pulp. During the dewtering process, there will be starch milk come out from the machine.But the starch slurry is no use during high quality cassava flour or garri processing. But we can collect the starch milk for settle down. And then get the pure starch powder after drying in the sun. In this way, we can ensure no waste in the cassava processing line.

Starch slurry

These are the main by products of cassava processing, and they can be sold, recycled or be used in other industry. No matter how you want to process cassava, our engineer team can provide you different proposals and help you collect the by products according to your requirements, so that you can get a maximum profit when invest a cassava processing project. Want to know more uses of cassava processing by products, welcome to consult us.