Today we would like to present you the Motivation of Yaw Gyamfi to participate at the Falling Walls Lab Ghana 2018.
The topic of his presentation: Breaking the Wall of Importing Expensive Natural Anti-caking Agents. Enjoy!
Globally, poor industrial waste management continues to be a socio-environmental canker. In recent times, the food industry has been charged with the responsibility of effectively managing its bio-waste products especially, for environmental sustainability. During the processing of fruits, large quantities of by-products which are considered waste are generated. Waste from pineapple processing has been estimated to be 40 – 60 % (depending on variety) as peels and core. In a lot of pineapple processing companies (juice and dried) in Ghana, the core (high fibre part) which constitute about 6 - 9 % of the fruits is usually discarded as waste. This leads to loss of valuable amounts of dietary fibre, which has wide applications in the food industry. In addition, this challenge increases environmental pollution as the country faces the lack of effective waste disposal systems for pineapple waste.
Dried fruits are hygroscopic due to the concentration of sugars. This makes them sticky and therefore clumps together with adverse effect the flowability and appearance of the final product. This challenge leads to the importation of natural starch-based anticaking agents such as rice flour or potato starch by dried fruit processing companies at high costs annually to improve the flowability of the dried fruits. Therefore, pineapple core flour was developed to provide a cost-effective and an innovative alternative to these importations of expensive rice flour or potato starch by dried fruit companies.
I believe what the DAAD Falling Walls Lab Ghana is doing is inspiring, motivating and beautiful. In the sense that, it gives young scientist and entrepreneurs to communicate their findings and innovative ideas to the world. Also, it challenges the youth and everyone in the world on the need to create and transformative solutions to problems around us in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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