Corn flakes are rich in nutrition and relatively balanced, making them a rare cereal breakfast food. Also, corn flakes are a kind of crisp food with a strong grain flavor. Then, corn flakes’ main raw materials is corn flour, with sugar, various vitamins, and minerals. So after adding a certain amount of water, kneading, maturing, forming, pressing, baking and seasoning them in the corn flacks maker machine.
Also, corn flacks is a convenient, fast, nutritious and relatively balanced food. In modern processing, an extruder applies to complete the full kneading, cooking and tableting of the corn flour mixture after adding water.
What Is The Corn Flacks Extrusion Technology?
Extrusion technology is a new processing technology that integrates mixing, stirring, crushing, heating, cooking, sterilization, expansion and molding. Also it can realize a series of simultaneous and continuous operation of a series of units. Fist, Its process is simple, energy consumption is low, and cost is low. Second, the characteristics of multi-function, high yield and high quality play an important role in refining corn. Third, it can improve the taste of corn, inactivate unhealthy factors, and improve protein digestibility. Finally, there are many kinds of products after extrusion. So the preservation rate and digestibility of nutrients are high, and it is convenient to eat.
What Is The History Of The Corn Flacks Maker Machine?
At the end of the 19th century, when Will Keith Kellogg, a medical doctor of the United States, invented corn flakes, he established a basic process for the production of corn flakes.
The process when Will Keith Kellogg invented corn flakes:
Corn → steaming → adding salt, etc. to fully knead → granulating and forming → tableting → baking → corn flakes
After more than one hundred years of production and practice, the corn flacks production equipment has been continuously improved. Also the degree of automation has become higher and higher. And then the production process has undergone tremendous changes. On the one hand, the raw material was changed from corn kernels to corn flour at the beginning. On the other hand, the cooking method was changed to a continuous twin-screw extruder. Also the granulation and molding were also completed on the extruder at one time. The product was pre-dried and then compressed into tablets to make the product more uniform. So as a result, the high baking temperature makes the flavor of the product more prominent.
Advanced industrial equipment and assembly lines have formed the following modern corn flakes production process:
Corn flour, sugar, salt, other nutrients → mixing ingredients → twin-screw extrusion maturation → cutting and forming → pre-drying → sheeting → high-temperature baking → corn flakes
What Are The Steps Of The Full Automatic Corn Flacks Processing Line?
1. The ingredients of the corn flakes are very important, and the seasoning must have a good taste. The ratio and content of various nutrients are also very important.
2. Add corn flour or corn dregs to nutrient additives and a certain proportion of water to mix evenly.
3. Convey the mixed raw materials to the feeding hopper of the extruder.
4. The extrusion curing molding process of corn flakes is the key to producing high-quality corn flakes. The raw materials in the feeding hopper enter the extrusion system to produce small spherical particles.
5. Cut the material after extruding and curing by the twin-screw extruder. Then it can make the granular materials of the same size. Also the material is translucent.
6. Vibrating screen can disperse the particles and avoid overlapping and pressing together after entering the tablet press. Because it can effectively improve the production efficiency of corn flakes processing equipment, and save a lot of energy consumption.
7. The cut and shaped materials enter the dryer for pre-drying. After drying the surface, to form a certain tension, and no longer adheres to each other. So it is beneficial to the smooth progress of the tablet.
8. Air conveyor conveys the particles to the tablet press.
6. Tablet press to press small spherical particles into flakes, namely corn flakes.
7. Air conveyor conveys the corn flakes into the oven.
8. The oven is mostly electric oven. The temperature need to control between 0 and 200 degrees. Inside is a stainless steel double-layer mesh bag. The baking time is according to the speed to remove moisture.
9. The roasted corn flakes become corn flake products after cooling. Then coating sugar or chocolate to increase the taste of corn flakes.
