Potato processing storage conditions

Potatoes are cultivated in areas where they can be stored throughout the winter in temperature-conditioned sheds. For economical potato processing, the length of the campaign should be an optimum between the capacity of the factory, and thus the costs of investment and processing, and starch losses during potato storage, particularly... 

Preconditioning is used commercially by chip-potato processors to compensate the unpredictable nature of reconditioning of process varieties and to achieve market flexibility (Brook et al., 1995). During this phase, the storage environment is maintained at conditions similar to the wound healing phase (12-16°C) with the pulp temperature actively controlled in order to eliminate pools of reducing sugars in process potatoes. The duration of this phase is dependent... 

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