BU engineers make ginger tea easier to prepare 12/18/2010

BU engineers make ginger tea easier to prepare

12/18/2010
POLANGUI, Albay — Four engineers from the research department of the Bicol University (BU) extension campus here have invented a portable machine capable as a multi-purpose post-harvest implement designed to multiply the value of farm produce for higher earnings of the farmers.

The invention is a washer-peeler, juice extractor, crystallizer and a mill rolled into one to be called the multicrop processing machine that also works well as a component of a processing system for the mechanical production of arrowroot starch and flour.

When customized into a washer-peeler, the machine peels outer skin or cleans and removes undesirable debris of ginger rhizome, sweet potato, potato, arrowroot, radish, carrot and other rootcrops.

As a juice extractor, it extracts juice from ginger, lemon grass, pandan leaves, arrowroot, herbal plants, vegetable leaves among other crops while as a crystallizer, it cooks ginger juice to produce powdered ginger tea..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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