Potato pulp separation

The manufacture of potato starch is a simple and easy process based on thorough comminution of potato tubers, separation of starch from potato pulp, its purification and dehydration. All the processing steps before drying have been described in detail by Lisinska and Leszczynski [9] and Treadway [10]. 

Vanilla can also be extracted from plants other than Vanilla planifolia, such as potato peels and pine tree sap. The most economical source of the product, however, is waste material left over from the wood pulp industry. That waste material consists primarily of lignin, a complex natural polymer that, along with cellulose, is the primary component of wood. The wastes from wood pulping can be treated to break down and separate the lignin. This leaves behind a complex... 

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