Raw snacks - Import export

Innovative shapes combined with taste and nutrition With increasing consciousness about healthy eating, cereals, especially extruded cereals, are becoming a standard feature in many households. “Rice-crispies”, “Fruit rings”, “cocoa cereal flakes” are some of the more common extruded cereals. A cereal like product in single piece bite size positioned for consumption alone and as a snack is a sweet snack. Raw-materials: Unlike many single cereal based conventional products, extrusion can be used to produce multi-cereal products with better nutritional balance. Similarly special nutritional requirements of specific group of consumers can be met through suitable selection of the raw-materials. Extruded products can be made in attractive shapes to increase their acceptability among children and introduce the concept of health with fun. Process: Production of cereals is usually a multi-stage process.

Nice textures & selected flavours presented in attractive shapes The most common extruded products are a wide variety of savoury, direct expanded snacks. Everybody is familiar with products like “Cheese balls”, “Peanut Flips”, “Potato sticks” etc. Raw-materials: Most savoury snacks are made from corn. Sometimes other raw-materials like potato powder, wheat or rice grits are used to impart an identifiable and attractive taste to the base product. Pulses or beans may be added to cater to distinctive local tastes. Similarly materials with high fiber content may be added to increase specific nutritional values. Process: The process can be divided into 3 stages. Pre-extrusion - Single or a homogeneous blend of various raw-materials is moisturised to a pre-determined level with water or water containing materials, prior to extrusion. The moisturisation is done either in batch mode during blending or continuously.