TOOTHPICK OF NOODLE TYPE USING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF

摘要

A toothpick is made of the mixture including sweet potato's starch of 30 %, wheat's starch of 20 % and wheat's powder of 47 % with refined salt of 3 % to have the predetermined humidity and stiffness, in which sweet potato's starch of 30 % wheat's powder of 47 %, wheat's starch of 20 % and refined salts of 3 % are mixed in a predetermined amount along with water at a mixer, the mixture is kneaded/boiled at an extruder provided with a heating device and then extruded therefrom to have a proper thickness in the form of a cylinder, the first processed member is cut in a thin noodle size suitable for drying and dehydrated on a drying die, the cut members are firstly dried in a dark room and secondly in a dehydro-freezing room for a predetermined time period, the complete dried members are separated from one another and again cut in a predetermined length, and the second processed members are pointed at both ends or one end. Therefore, the noodle type toothpicks are hard enough to use it like a wooden toothpick.