Puffed food made of sacred lotus husk

Abstract

The invention discloses a puffed food made with lotus root skin. Raw materials are added with water to be stirred into wet stock, which then goes through preparation processes of puffing, cutting into particles, cooling and conveying, rolling and pressing, baking, etc.; a seasoning agent is added in one of the preparation processes so as to obtain finished products with definite shape and flavor.The raw materials comprise grain powder and also lotus root skin powder which can pass through a 60-mesh screen and have the water content no more than 10 percent. The weight ratio of the grain powder and the lotus root skin powder is between 1:0.3 to 1: 2.5 and the water content of the wet stock ranges from 20 to 25 percent, while the added content of the seasoning agent accounts for 5 percent to 10 percent of the total weight of the puffed food and the water content of the finished product ranges from 3 to 6 percent. The puffed food of the invention has the health-care functions of clearingaway dysphoria, quenching thirst, arresting seminal emission, promoting blood, eliminating nocturnal emission, adjusting chills and fever, curing splenic diarrhea, protracted dysentery, nursing intestines and stomach, etc., and is the best nutrient for people who have a lingering illness, women after the birth or the old and the weak, thus being an ideal heath-care leisure food.

Description

technical field [0001] The invention relates to puffed food, in particular to a puffed food made from lotus skin. Background technique [0002] Puffed food is a kind of leisure food, such as snow rice cakes, potato chips, shrimp crackers, popcorn, rice crackers, etc., which are deeply loved by people, especially young people. The preparation method generally includes mixing raw materials with appropriate amount of water to form The wet billet or raw material is directly processed through extrusion puffing or frying puffing, cutting and granulation, cooling and conveying, kneading and pressing, and baking. In one of the processing steps, an appropriate amount of seasoning is also added to prepare a special A finished product with a certain shape and taste; its raw material is mainly grain powder. In order to enhance the physique of young people, various functional nutrients, such as calcium and amino acids, are added to the raw materials. [0003] Lotus seeds can invigorate ...

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Problems solved by technology

White lotus is mainly processed with red lotus as raw material, and the outer skin of red lotus is ground off by manual and mechanical grinding methods to obtain white lotus flesh (white lotus). The loss of the outer layer of lotus flesh during the grinding process accounts for Nearly 20% of the whole lotus meat, the leftovers in the whole skin grinding process are called lotus skin powder or skin grinding powder (including the seed coat), which is often called lotus skin, and the lotus skin is wasted as waste or fed as feed Livestock, whose nutritional value and resource benefits are underutilized