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The whole truth about the potato chips

Potatoes – a traditional vegetable which we eat, like bread and water. Potatoes symbolizes wealth, house, calm and warm, devoted to her songs, writing painting artist of genius. Potatoes became the first vegetable, tested at zero gravity – its first brought up in a spaceship.

Today, for many, and especially – for the Slavic peoples potatoes become “second bread” . In general, in the world, there are about a thousand different dishes of potatoes. Thousand first course can be considered – chips.

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Potato chips – variety salty snacks, allowing a snack between the main dishes. The form taken to distinguish between classic potato chips, extruders and other snacks. Their main difference lies in the fact that only the chips are made strictly from the living, natural potatoes. Here are the key characteristics of the main types of such products.

Requirements Potatoes

K “chipsovoy” potatoes, there are many requirements. First, the tuber must have a round shape, shallow eyes, and the size from 40 to 80 mm. In addition, the potato industry has a special chemical composition – it lower than normal sugar content and much more – solids. As a consequence, during frying potatoes absorb less oil, which reduces calorie product.

Also, potato chips to be resistant to mechanical damage, because they all show up at chipsine in the form of unappetizing dark spots.

Our chips – from our potato

Over the breeding of “ideal” chipsovoy potatoes for many years employed the best breeders in Europe and the world. In particular, for the manufacture of chips “LUX” (domestic producer and the leader of sales in the segment of potato chips) are used primarily by Dutch and German varieties. But especially proud TM “luxury” is the local variety “Fantasia, launched jointly with the Institute for Potato UAAS. It is universal and the most adapted to our natural environment. Ukrainian “Fantasy” has a good quality indicators and gradually replacing the foreign varieties. Now Agronomic Division of Kraft Foods Ukraine, where chips are manufactured “LUX”, continues to test new domestic varieties, as this trend is particularly promising.

In the autumn, before you get to the production of industrial potatoes are sorted and loaded into the potato for the whole year, pending receipt of the new crop. Different varieties of potatoes with special properties allow for storage of business throughout the year, quality raw materials.

In the potato all the time is being closely monitored and constant testing. There are potatoes in special rooms, with the temperature regime of not less than +8 ° C, humidity 96 – 99%, special green lighting and other important conditions. Potato equipped with fully automated control and monitoring. Thus, the potatoes retain their quality over the whole year.

Quality assurance for consumers

Responsible Care products to the quality of potatoes: the choice varieties, technologies cultivation and storage of potatoes – is the key to the quality of the final product – potato chips.