Investigating the Yield and Quality Characteristicsof Waste Potato Peel

By admin11 on Mon, 09/23/2019 - 13:09

The economy of developing countries, Kenya included, is still based on agriculture. Potato is one of the crops contributing immensely to Kenya’s agricultural sub-sector. Potatoes are processed into a variety of products such as chips, fries, mashed potatoes and flakes which results in a great amount of peels some of which go to waste. Industrial processing generates between 70 and 140 thousand tons of peels worldwide annually. The wastes from potato processing are mainly potato skins, starch and inert material.

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