BANANA POWDER MANUFACTURING UNIT

Description

Banana is among the most versatile crops grown in the tropical and sub-tropical parts of the world, and India is the largest producer globally and mostly utilizes about 90% of the bananas for domestic consumption. Banana is a highly perishable commodity; thus, processing into valuable products like chips, pulp, powder, etc. could help increase its shelf life. However, only 2.5% among all the cultivated banana gets processed of which the maximum production is of banana chips.

In this report, we will basically focus on the processing of banana powder. The banana powder gets processed from green bananas by peeling, chopping, drying and grinding. The shelf life of the banana powder is around a year. It has the benefits of healthy and nutritional food. It can be used as an ingredient in the production of cookies, biscuits, cakes, desserts, etc.

Banana powder is gluten free as well as full of Resistant Starch (RS) contributing to physiological effects and it is a good alternative for wheat flour, making it a good choice for the celiac people. The Resistance Starch helps to feed the intestinal bacteria which is beneficial to health.

There is a great scope for processing the banana to powder in the coming future considering its wide applicability in food and non-food applications like nutritional food, animal feed, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical industries. Other factors accelerating the demand of banana powder are the changing lifestyle, increasing awareness about healthy food, rising vegan population, increasing the acceptability, higher demand in the international market, moreover round the year availability of bananas in India in cheaper rates, etc.

Therefore, considering the above factors, there is a huge potential for banana powder manufacturing units around the globe, which would reduce the wastage of commodity during post-harvest handling as well as generate potential returns.

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