Dr. Made Tri Ari Penia Kresnowati
Indonesia is a country with the largest population, to build Indonesian food resilience and sovereignty, it is necessary to develop processing technology and develop a culture of alternative food principal. Cassava is a potential alternative and the largest producer of Singsong in the world. Cassava has not been used extensively in the food industry, among others, caused by a high cassava cassava biography and the shelf life of the cassava very short harvest. Behind that cassava has the advantage, namely not containing gluten so that potential to be developed into health products. In the past few years we developed the production process of fercaf flour through the fermentation of cassava chips to modify its structure, then continued with drying, compounding, and sacrifting to produce flour fermented cassava flour. FRERCAF flour has a smooth texture, color and neutral aroma, lace cyanide levels, and longevity. These characteristics support wider utilization in the food industry. The fercaf flour production system has also passed several stages of development, ranging from a production scale of 3 kg of cassava / batch, up to a continuous production scale of 60 kg of cassava / day. At present, we have also made a continuous production system with a scale of production reaching 1 ton of cassava / day. This production system has been tested and planned with factory operation (start up, shut down, batch scheduling), preparation of cassava raw materials, fermentation, drying, compounding, product quality control, and the application of flour as a food product.
Increasing the welfare of farmers and producing gluten-free fercaf flour can also be consumed by people who are gluten allergies, so the consumption is wider. Communities are more familiar with the application of fercaf flour utilization closer.
Problems in the FERCAF production system, namely, quality control of production and laboratory feasibility of production. To overcome these obstacles, the reliability of the Pilot Scale FERCAF production system needs to be improved in order to support the industrialization and commercialization of FRERCAF flour through a series of activities, "Cassava-based food teaching industry-based industries.