Environment-friendly starch toothpick and manufacturing method thereof

Abstract

The invention discloses an environment-friendly starch toothpick and a manufacturing method thereof, and relates to ingredients of the environment-friendly starch toothpick and the manufacturing method thereof. The environment-friendly starch toothpick consists of 83 percent of corn starch, 12 percent of leftover material, 4.9 percent of sharpened powder, 0.09 percent of sorbitol, 0.01 percent of food color and 28 percent of cool water, and is manufactured by the following steps of: stirring; semi-curing; puffing; extruding a surface; forming; separating; drying; cutting; and sharpening to obtain the finished product. The invention saves the resources and the energy and is environmental-friendly, and the toothpick has an attractive appearance and does not have harm to a human body; and particularly, great improvement on the manufacturing technology is ensured, the leftover material produced during production can be recovered and recycled, refrigeration is not used in the forming process of the product, the capital for constructing a refrigeratory is saved, the long-term use of electric energy and electric charge expense are also saved, and energy conservation effect is completely achieved.

Description

Technical field: [0001] The invention relates to ingredients and a production method of an environmentally friendly starch toothpick, in particular to a production method using cornstarch as the main raw material. Background technique: [0002] Traditional toothpicks are made of wood or bamboo. According to statistics in 2006, my country consumes more than 600 billion toothpicks every year. If it is made of wood, it needs to consume 1.6 million cubic meters of wood, which is equivalent to 2.03 million mu of woods; If it is made of bamboo, it needs to consume 1.4 million tons of bamboo, which is equivalent to 700,000 mu of bamboo forest. The small act of flossing our teeth every day has caused great damage to the environment. At present, in Japan, South Korea and many developed countries and regions in Europe and the United States, the production of bamboo and wooden toothpicks has been banned and replaced by starch toothpicks or other environmentally friendly toothpicks. ...

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Problems solved by technology

But there are some deficiencies in the existing starch toothpick preparation technology, for example, 1, the leftover material produced in the production process is not reused; 2, the sharpening powder produced when the two ends are sharpened is not collected and reused; 3, Toothpicks must be frozen when they are formed, which will cost a lot of money to build cold storage, which will inevitably increase the cost of the product