Chapter 11 - Sweet potato snack foods

Abstract

This chapter introduces a series of common sweet potato snacks, including sweet potato chips, roast sweet potatoes, sweet potato biscuit, dried sweet potato slices, sweet potato cakes, doughnuts, extruded sweet potato snacks, etc., and the packaging thereof. It starts by presenting an overview of sweet potato-related products, and then focuses on a series of common snack foods by presenting the concept, classification, main raw ingredients, preparation methods, and the effects on their quality of the addition of different sweet potato proportions. It then introduces the influence of packaging material and packaging systems on the stability of sweet potato snack foods. By the end of the chapter, the trends and prospects of sweet potato snack foods are presented.