Tapioca chips
are processed from raw tapioca roots into dry chip form. For application
of the animal feed industry, the chips are normally pelletized into tapioca
pellets or ground into tapioca meals for mixing with other feed ingredients.
However, tapioca chips are also used widely in China, Brazil as well as
Korea in the making of alcohol as a substitute to molasses and sweet potato.
From the abundant crop of tapioca in Thailand, tapioca pellets are
produced and exported in huge volume mainly to the European Union countries
to be used as an animal feed ingredient. Thus it makes an economical commodity
for substituting the usage of grains to yield carbohydrate apart from the
protein contents derived from soya bean and other ingredients.
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Qualitywise, this commodity is controlled under the official standard
which governs the following specification details. Our export of tapioca
pellets is usually made in bulk supply.
| Starch |
65% min.
(according to EEC method 72/199) |
| Fibre |
5% max. |
| Sand and
Silica |
3% max.
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| Moisture |
Moisture
14% max. (with allowance to 14.3% max. for shipments during June –
September being rainy season)
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