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Course code: NTSS10159f13Semester: 2013/2014 summer
Name: Potato Products Technology
Major: Food Technology and Nutrition
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 6
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. inż. Agnieszka Kita, prof. nadzw.
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: After completing the course students know technological value and chemical composition of raw material, technologies of potato processing, machinery and equipments, largeness of the production. Students know how to set up a quality control laboratory for potato, semi- and ready products of different lines of potato processing.
Competences: After completing the course students are able to organize and ménage production in potato processing factories.
Prerequisites: General Food Technology, Food Chemistry, Human Nutrition
Course content: The structure of potato utilization. Potato products divisions. Potato factories in Poland. The raw material requirements up to branch of industry, largeness of the production. Starch processing. The quality of semi- and ready products. Fried, dehydrated and canned potato products technology. Machines and installation, balances of production. Extrusion products, type of extrusion. The manufacturing of different snacks and their quality.
Recommended literature: 1. Technologia przetwórstwa węglowodanów. Red. Pałasiński M., Wyd. Naukowe „Akapit”, Kraków 1999; 2. Potato science and technology. Lisińska G., Leszczyński W., London, New York 1989; 3. Potato processing. Talburt F., Smith O., Van Nostrand Reinhold Publisher, New York 1987.
Assessment methods: Oral exam, minimum knowledge to pass an exam – 60%.
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