Bleached and Dehydrated Ginger

Abstract

Blanching and roasting provides substantial value addition to the HPS groundnuts. Few years back, critical machines like colour sorters and whole nut or split nut blanchers were not manufactured in India and landed cost of these machines were prohibitive. But they are now available in the country which has changed the scenario. India has been exporting large quantities of HPS groundnuts but blanching and roasting was uneconomical and thus the country was deprived of value addition. Demand for these products within the country from many snacks manufacturers, caterers, airlines, some big chikki manufacturers, army canteens etc.