What is Potato Flakes?
Potato Flakes is the alternative to fresh potatoes, in the flake process, potatoes are washed, peeled, cut into thick slices and then precooked, cooled, cooked, mashed and drum dried. Various additives such as citric acid, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bisulfite and antioxidants may be mixed with the cooked potato before drying to preserve color and flavor. Monoglyceride emulsifiers are added to facilitate release of the dried potato sheet from the drum and to complex the free starch. The resulting potato flake, when dehydrated with hot water, produces mashed potatoes for consumption not unlike those made from scratch by cooking and mashing fresh potatoes. The flake process was designed to produce mashed potatoes with a dry, mealy texture like that of fresh-cooked, mashed potatoes, For this reason, potato flakes have become the product of choice for home preparation and make up virtually all of the product of choice for home preparation and make up virtually all of the products sol
