| 摘要 |
<p>A first aspect of my invention comprises a process for producing sugarbeet snack chips suitable for human consumption, comprising the steps of cleaning sugarbeets, slicing the clean sugarbeets into a number of slices, blanching the slices in heated water, frying the blanched slices in heated oil until crisp, sugarbeet chips are formed, and then drying the sugarbeet chips. The second aspect of my invention comprises a process for producing a human consumable, high-fiber snack product from sugarbeets, which comprises the steps of cleaning sugarbeets, slicing the cleaned sugarbeets into a plurality of pieces, blanching the pieces in heated water, milling at least a portion of the blanched sugarbeet pieces to a particle size of about 8 to 10 U.S. mesh and extruding the milled and unmilled blanched sugarbeet pieces under heat so as to form a crisp snack product. Optionally, the milled and unmilled blanched sugarbeet pieces may be combined with a farinaceous compound prior to extruding.</p> |
