Pounded yam instant flour commonly known as poundo yam, is used to prepare pounded yam. I love pounded yam especially when it is served with egusi and vegetable soup. Thanks to technology we don’t have to go through the stress of pounding yams using mortar and pestle before we can eat our favorite pounded yam. All we need to do is step into a store and buy pounded yam instant flour (poundo yam). This is also a great business opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors.
The variety of yam used in pounded yam instant flour (poundo yam) production is a white yam. It has to be a white yam.
Equipment used for pounded yam instant flour processing are: slicing Machine, per boilers, dryers (cabinet/flash), milling machine (hammer mill with cyclone), sifting machines, sealers, packaging machines, bowls, knives, scoops and weighing scale.
Pounded yam instant flour (poundo yam) process flow chart
Cleaning: Clean yams to remove sand and dirt
Peeling: Peel manually using knives. Peel under water. Peeled yam must constantly be placed underwater, this is to prevent enzymatic browning
Slicing: Slice under water. Slice peeled yam tubers into uniform size chips. This is to enable the chips to dry faster at the same time and temperature.
Par-Boiling: Par-boil yam chips, Boil yams for a short period of time. Be carefull not to cook the yam chips.
Drying: Dry yam chips in a cabinet dryer. Ensure yam chips are properly dried.
Milling: Mill dried chips into a fine flour using a hammer mill
Cooling: Cool milled flour before packaging to reduce the heat generated as a result of milling
Packaging: Package pounded yam instant flour in different sizes (1kg, 2kg, 5kg, and 10kg) seal and label
Packaged pounded yam instant flour (poundo Yam) can be sold to individuals, supermarkets, schools, Restaurants, hotels, and caterers. Pounded yam instant flour (poundo yam) can also be exported to other countries.
obodozie chime
• 7 months agoThanks for the info. I will definitely try it out.
Shola Oladejo
• 6 months agoYou are welcome, please do try it out
Ighalo God's power
• 6 months agoHow can one go into poundo yam production in a little scale and what equipments is required, where can one buy these equipments and how much is needed as start up capital.
Shola Oladejo
• 5 months agoThe equipment you will need are already stated in the article. However the major equipment are, a cabinet dryer, a milling machine and possibly a parboiling machine. We have experienced consultants to work with you to start-up this business. Kindly send us an email if you are interested.
ITCHOLA Brice Giscard
• 5 months agoBonjour Madame
Je suis très intéressé par cet article qui me donne du coût l’envie de l’appliquer et de créer mon entreprise agroalimentaire.
Une correspondance entre vous et moi me fera un grand plaisir. Votre numéro whatsapp, ça m’aidera.
Merci
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Hello Madam
I am very interested in this article which makes me want to apply it and create my agrifood business.
A correspondence between you and me will make me very happy. Your whatsapp number will help me.
Thank you
Shola Oladejo
• 5 months agoMerci de l’intérêt que vous portez à cet article. Nous avons reçu votre e-mail et nous vous répondrons sous peu.
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Nuhu Suleiman
• 5 months agoCost of poundo yam production machine
Like how much are these equipment will cost? Do you sell them?
• 1 month agoHow much are the equipment! Do u sell them?
Shola Oladejo
• 4 days agoWe do not sell them. We can render consulting services if you are interested in starting a pondo yam production business
AnietieT
• 6 months agoHello. Can you please explain how to parboil
Shola Oladejo
• 5 months agoTo parboil is to boil for a short time.
Olubunmi Dorcas Olajide
• 5 months agotimranpels@gmail.com
Good evening, I really like your write up am interested in the elubo and poundo production I need your assistance.
Thanks
Shola Oladejo
• 5 months agoKindly send us an email on how you want us to help you.
froleprotrem
• 5 months agoLoving the info on this website , you have done great job on the posts.
Babalola Olu
• 5 months agoA very good write-up!I will need your assistance to scale-up my poundo-yam business.Presently,I’m involved in a very small scale manual production.
Shola Oladejo
• 5 months agoThank you. We would like to assist you. Kindly send us an email.
Babalola Olu
• 5 months agoMy email is:— borsons55@gmail.com
Robert
• 5 months agoHow do I ensure my pondo flour don’t turn black when reconstituting with hot water to make swallow?
Shola Oladejo
• 3 months agoSoak in Sodium metabisulphite solution…There are other factors to consider. Quality of your yams and drying temperature
Adetutu
• 4 months agoThank you for the article ma.
Can I dry the parboiled yam in the oven?
Shola Oladejo
• 4 months agoHi Adetutu, I am not sure, there is no harm in trying. Try with a small portion of parboiled yam chips and see the outcome.
Oye
• 4 months agoYour Comment*Please can you be specific on the parboiling?For how long can I parboil and what thickness can I cut the sliced yam into? Thank you
Titilayo
• 4 months agoPls wat is the difference btw yam flour (elubo) and pounded yam flour( poundo yam) production
Shola Oladejo
• 4 months agoYam flour (elubo) is used to prepare amala a stable food in the southwest part of Nigeria. While yam flour (pondo yam ) is used to prepare pounded yam. Amala is black in colour while pounded yam is white in colour. During the [rpduction of yam flour (elubo), yam chips are dried without parboiling while yam chips for pondo yam are parboiled before drying.
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Abdulmalik
• 3 months agoGood day ma, thanks for the educative information and may God continue to bless you.pls,I don’t know if I can get your WhatsApp contact but here is mine”08097370357″.I need your professional advice on these product of mine ( cereal poundo, mix grains poundo).thanks in anticipation
Shola Oladejo
• 3 months agoKindly send an email with your specific questions to info@foodpreneurshub.com
ESTELLIA KOUNOU
• 3 months agoHI
Thhank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us
i tried doing it and for the first time i totally cooked the yam at the end the pounded yam was not elastic
i tried the second time by paraboiling the yam but i noticed that the yam started darkening since i prepare it the eve of the drying.why did the paraboiled yams started becoming dark not brown
Shola Oladejo
• 3 months agoThe yam gets brown because of the enzymatic browning reaction…This can be stop or prevented by soaking the yam slices in Sodium meta-bisulphite solution. Other factors to check are the types of yam used and the drying temperature. Make sure you use white yams and don’t dry at very high temperatures.
Israel Deborah
• 1 month agoHow will I per-boiled the yam and how will I ensure my poundo not to turn black.
Can I sundry it.
Shola Oladejo
• 4 days agoI will advise you to use a cabinet dryer for drying.
Ifeoluwa
• 3 weeks agoI found this very useful as I like DIY homebmadea big thank you to the author for this write up,I will try it and come back to share my testimony
Shola Oladejo
• 4 days agoThanks Ifeoluwa
Andrew Owoichoechi Audu
• 3 weeks agoGood day to you. I am interested in the instant yam powder production machine. May I know the total cost of a complete line?
Shola Oladejo
• 4 days agoThe cost of a complete line will depend on your proposed capacity.