Cassava Products 1 - Cassava Chips

Cassava is a tropical root crop rich in starch that is consumed by over 500 million people all over the world. It is a food that content high amount of carbohydrates among all the common staple foods. Though cassava can be eat directly as a food, cassava is widely used to make many other products like cassava flour, Chips, animal food, alcohol, sweeteners, bio-degradable products and starches for sizing papers, etc. farmers can become manufacturers my producing one or few of these products and earn some more profit than selling raw cassava. This article will explain few of these products and general manufacturing process of each product to give basic ideas to farmers who are willing to become manufacturers in future.

Cassava Chips

Cassava Chips

Cassava chips are the most common product that we can find in the market. Also it is very easy to make cassava chips, yet few farmers are doing it. Most of the time, other intermediate persons produce these chips and make huge profit out of it. Making process is very simple and described below. 

• Select some medium size fresh cassava roots. Smaller ones and larger ones are not suitable for this. Better to select cassava roots which has diameter of 10 -18 mm. however you can choose the chips size as per the market requirement. 

• Clean them and peel off properly. Cut off both ends of the root and wash them again.

• Cut the root into small slices. You should careful to maintain 1-2 mm thickness for slices and the same thickness for each slice. Otherwise the crispy quality will be less in your cassava chips. You can use simple handmade machine or electrical machine to cut these roots into slices. see below video and you can have brief idea of cassava chip machine.

• Now you can deep fry these slices in pre-heated coconut oil (palm oil or vegetable oil also can be used) until the chips become golden colour.

  

  Golden Colour Cassava Chips

• Take them out after they become golden colour and let them rest on a clean paper or strainer until excess oil get out.

• Finally you can mix salt, chili powder and fried curry leaves as you want and pack them to sell. There are many ingredients used in cassava chips for commercial business. However some of these chemical ingredients are not suitable for the health. therefore it is advisable to use natural spices to make them spicy. 

Ingredients used in Cassava chips 

Though the process is easy, cassava chip has a big market in each country. You can produce these chips in any scale as per your market and still you can earn some good profit.