Last Updated: September 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n When purchasing potato flakes for industrial food production, nutrition data should not be treated simply as a consumer-facing nutrition label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For a food manufacturer, potato flakes are a dehydrated potato ingredient with a concentrated nutritional profile<\/strong>. Moisture, dry matter, starch, protein, dietary fiber, minerals, sugars and processing conditions all influence not only the declared nutritional value, but also rehydration performance, texture, formulation cost, browning behavior and finished-product consistency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why we recommend that procurement teams evaluate potato flakes on a dry-matter basis and together with the technical specification<\/strong>, rather than comparing suppliers only by price per metric ton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This article examines the nutritional composition of potato flakes from a manufacturer’s perspective and explains which nutritional parameters actually matter when selecting a bulk potato flake supplier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fresh potatoes contain a large amount of water. Depending on variety and growing conditions, fresh potato tubers typically contain approximately 18\u201326% dry matter<\/strong>, with the remainder being primarily water. During potato flake production, cooking and dehydration remove most of this water, concentrating the solids into a shelf-stable ingredient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For industrial potato flakes, a typical specification can be approximately:<\/p>\n\n\n\n These figures represent typical industrial ranges rather than a universal specification<\/strong>. Actual results depend on potato variety, agricultural conditions, dry matter, peeling, cooking, processing temperature, formulation and analytical method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HONGJI’s technical documentation, for example, reports potato flakes with approximately 355\u2013375 kcal, 6\u20139 g protein, 80\u201385 g carbohydrate, 75\u201380 g starch and 5\u20138 g dietary fiber per 100 g<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The important point for procurement is that there is no single nutritional number called “potato flakes nutrition.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a compositional range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And that range matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The most important nutritional component of potato flakes is carbohydrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typical potato flakes contain approximately:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 80\u201385 g total carbohydrate per 100 g<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n with starch representing the dominant fraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A typical industrial specification may contain approximately:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 70\u201380 g starch per 100 g product.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This makes potato flakes primarily a starch-based carbohydrate ingredient<\/strong>, rather than a protein or fat ingredient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For manufacturers, however, simply knowing the starch percentage is not enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The more useful question is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n What type of starch is present, and how has processing affected its functionality?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Potato flakes are fundamentally different from purified potato starch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Potato starch is extracted and purified, while potato flakes retain much more of the original potato matrix and cellular structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This difference affects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, a manufacturer purchasing potato flakes should not automatically substitute a high-starch potato ingredient for potato flakes simply because the analytical starch percentage looks similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My view as a manufacturer:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For most applications using potato flakes, functional starch behavior is more commercially important than maximizing the absolute starch number.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n A flake with slightly lower starch but better cell structure, hydration behavior and batch consistency can produce a better finished product than a cheaper material with a higher nominal starch content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Potato flakes typically contain approximately:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6\u20139 g protein per 100 g.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Some technical specifications may report approximately 7\u201310% protein depending on the potato variety and analytical basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared with cereal ingredients or dedicated protein ingredients, this is not a high protein concentration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Potato flakes should therefore not be purchased as a protein ingredient<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, protein still matters for product formulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Protein can contribute to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n For manufacturers, protein becomes particularly important when a product has a tight nutritional declaration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, if a manufacturer develops a finished snack or prepared-food product around a specified nutritional profile, variation in the protein content of the potato raw material can contribute to batch-to-batch variation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typical potato flakes may contain approximately:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5\u20138 g dietary fiber per 100 g.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is one of the important differences between potato flakes and purified potato starch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Potato starch is essentially a purified starch ingredient, whereas potato flakes retain a much broader fraction of the potato solids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This makes potato flakes nutritionally more representative of the original potato.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, procurement teams should be careful about comparing fiber numbers between suppliers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ask:<\/p>\n\n\n\n These questions can explain surprisingly large differences between apparently similar technical datasheets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Potato itself is naturally low in fat, and potato flakes normally retain this characteristic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A typical industrial specification may contain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u22640.5\u20130.8 g fat per 100 g.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Saturated fat is generally very low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is commercially useful because potato flakes can provide bulk, starch and potato flavor without adding significant amounts of fat to a formulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But there is an important procurement distinction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Depending on the manufacturer and specification, potato flakes can contain processing aids or additives such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, one commercial HONGJI specification describes a formulation based on 99.5% potato<\/strong>, with INS 471 up to 0.5% and citric acid at specified levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, if your product positioning is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 100% potato<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n you should not rely solely on the product name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Request the supplier’s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Potassium is nutritionally one of the more interesting components of potato.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Industrial potato flake specifications can show approximately:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1,100\u20131,600 mg potassium per 100 g dry product<\/strong>, depending on the raw material and analytical basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The concentration appears high partly because dehydration removes water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This creates an important point when comparing fresh potatoes with potato flakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The nutritional concentration therefore naturally appears much higher in the dried ingredient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n FDA currently lists the Daily Value for potassium at 4,700 mg\/day<\/strong> for U.S. nutrition labeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From a formulation perspective, however, manufacturers should distinguish between nutritional value<\/strong> \u0648 sodium\/potassium formulation control<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A potato flake supplier should provide a reproducible mineral specification when the ingredient is being used in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Plain potato itself is naturally low in sodium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typical potato flake specifications may show approximately:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10\u201380 mg sodium per 100 g<\/strong>, depending on raw material, processing and formulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why procurement teams should distinguish between:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u0648<\/p>\n\n\n\n The latter may contain substantial quantities of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n and therefore cannot be compared directly with plain industrial potato flakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For B2B purchasing, I recommend specifying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sodium content of the ingredient before formulation<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n rather than simply asking whether the finished product is “low sodium.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fresh potatoes are a source of vitamin C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, potato flakes are produced through a combination of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heat and processing can reduce vitamin C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consequently, vitamin C in finished potato flakes is normally considerably lower than the vitamin C concentration that might be associated with fresh raw potatoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HONGJI’s technical nutritional data gives a typical range of approximately:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12\u201325 mg vitamin C per 100 g potato flakes<\/strong>, depending on product and production conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another important consideration is storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even after manufacturing, vitamin degradation can continue depending on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, I would not recommend using potato flakes as the primary nutritional justification for a vitamin-C claim<\/strong> unless the specific finished product has been analytically validated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Potato flakes also retain smaller quantities of several B vitamins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typical values may include approximately:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The nutritional significance of these nutrients is real, but from an industrial procurement perspective they are usually secondary parameters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For most food manufacturers, the primary nutritional controls remain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n dry matter \u2192 starch \u2192 carbohydrate \u2192 protein \u2192 fiber \u2192 minerals \u2192 sugars \u2192 fat<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n rather than individual vitamin optimization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is one of the parameters I recommend procurement teams pay considerably more attention to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Potato flakes naturally contain sugars, including reducing sugars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A typical specification may limit reducing sugars to around:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u22641.5\u20133.0%<\/strong>, depending on product specification and analytical method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why does this matter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because reducing sugars participate in the Maillard reaction<\/strong> during thermal processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That means sugar concentration can influence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is particularly important for manufacturers producing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore:<\/p>\n\n\n\n For a snack manufacturer, reducing sugar can be a more commercially important specification than the headline protein number.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n This is one of the reasons we recommend evaluating potato flakes as a functional raw material<\/strong>, rather than simply as a nutritional ingredient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For industrial purchasing, dry matter is arguably one of the most useful numbers in the entire specification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If potato flakes contain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 94% dry matter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n then approximately 94 kg of every 100 kg of material is dry potato solids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If another supplier provides material at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 90% dry matter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n the nominal price per metric ton cannot be compared directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The buyer is purchasing different amounts of actual potato solids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Suppose:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Supplier A:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Approximate dry solids:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 940 kg\/MT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Effective price per metric ton of dry solids:<\/p>\n\n\n\n $900 \u00f7 0.94 = approximately $957\/MT dry solids<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Supplier B:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Effective price:<\/p>\n\n\n\n $860 \u00f7 0.90 = approximately $956\/MT dry solids<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The apparently cheaper product is therefore almost identical on a dry-solids basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Price per ton is not the same as ingredient value per ton.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n For large-volume procurement, this difference can become significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the biggest mistakes in potato-flake purchasing is treating nutritional composition and functional performance as two completely separate subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They are connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The production process affects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The HONGJI technical documentation, for example, specifies rehydration performance alongside compositional parameters rather than treating nutrition as an isolated property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is important because a buyer may purchase:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 MT of potato flakes with excellent nutritional numbers<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n and still have poor production performance if:<\/p>\n\n\n\n From a manufacturer’s perspective:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The best potato flake is not necessarily the one with the highest nutritional number. It is the one whose nutritional composition and functional properties consistently match the buyer’s formulation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Another common mistake is comparing nutrition tables without checking the basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A supplier may report:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nutrition in the product exactly as supplied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nutrition calculated after excluding moisture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These are not interchangeable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If potato flakes contain 6% moisture and 94% dry matter, a nutrient concentration reported on a dry basis will naturally be higher than the same nutrient reported on an as-is basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, when comparing suppliers, procurement teams should request:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nutrition data on an as-is basis, plus dry matter\/moisture and analytical method.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n This allows the buyer to normalize competing products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The following is a useful reference framework for B2B procurement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Important:<\/strong> This table should be treated as a technical reference range, not as a guaranteed specification for every batch. Final commercial specifications should be based on the supplier’s current TDS, product formulation, COA and agreed purchasing specification. HONGJI’s published technical documentation provides batch\/product-specific ranges and analytical methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If I were purchasing 100\u20131,000+ tons of potato flakes per year, I would not ask only:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “What is your price?”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would ask for at least the following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These parameters provide substantially more purchasing information than a generic nutrition label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The nutritional composition of potato flakes begins before the potato enters the factory<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Different potato varieties can have different:<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, HONGJI’s commercial potato flake production uses Atlantic, Shepody and Russet Burbank<\/strong> raw materials for different processing requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why I do not recommend evaluating potato flakes solely by the finished-product specification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For serious industrial buyers, the more useful question is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is the manufacturer’s raw-material strategy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n A manufacturer that can explain its potato variety, agricultural sourcing, dry matter management and process control can generally provide much more useful technical information than a trader who only provides a final COA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a tendency in ingredient purchasing to create a simple ranking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Protein higher = better I don’t recommend this approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For industrial applications, these relationships are not that simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n May be desirable for some applications, but excessive starch damage can change texture and viscosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Generally improves storage stability and increases solids concentration, but the appropriate specification depends on process and product requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Does not automatically mean better potato flakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n May be attractive for nutritional positioning, but excessive variation can influence texture and mouthfeel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Can be particularly important for products exposed to high-temperature processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, the correct purchasing question is not:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Which potato flakes have the best nutrition?”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n It is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Which potato flakes provide the nutritional composition, functional performance, safety and batch consistency required by my manufacturing process?”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n That is a much more useful procurement question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At HONGJI, we consider nutritional composition to be part of a broader raw-material control system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The objective is not simply to produce a product that looks good on a nutrition label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The objective is to control the chain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Potato variety \u2192 agricultural conditions \u2192 dry matter \u2192 processing \u2192 starch condition \u2192 dehydration \u2192 nutritional composition \u2192 functional performance \u2192 finished food<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why laboratory analysis is important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key parameters such as moisture, dry matter, starch, sugars, protein, ash and fat should be monitored using standardized analytical methods. HONGJI’s quality-control documentation describes routine chemical analysis and method verification for these parameters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For a long-term B2B relationship, batch consistency is usually more valuable than an impressive single COA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before approving a potato flake supplier, I recommend requesting these documents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Technical Data Sheet (TDS)<\/strong> 2. Certificate of Analysis (COA)<\/strong> 3. Ingredient Statement<\/strong> 4. Microbiological Specification<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Heavy Metal Specification<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. Pesticide Residue Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. Allergen Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. GMO Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. Product Specification \/ Quality Agreement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. Sample for production testing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The final step is particularly important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A laboratory specification can tell you whether a product meets analytical requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But only a production trial<\/strong> can tell you whether the potato flakes actually perform correctly in your manufacturing process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Potato flakes are nutritionally simple in one sense: they are predominantly a concentrated carbohydrate ingredient derived from potatoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But from an industrial manufacturer’s perspective, the nutritional composition is considerably more complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A good potato flake typically provides:<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, nutritional composition should never be evaluated independently from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n dry matter + reducing sugars + starch quality + particle size + rehydration + cell structure + microbiological safety + batch consistency.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For procurement managers, my strongest recommendation is therefore simple:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do not buy potato flakes on price per metric ton or nutrition numbers alone. Buy them on cost per useful dry solid, functional performance, food safety and long-term batch consistency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n That is the difference between buying a commodity and sourcing a reliable industrial ingredient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The nutritional ranges and technical parameters in this article are based primarily on HONGJI Agriculture’s technical documentation, including its potato-flake technical datasheet, chemical-analysis methodology and B2B sourcing documentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For comparison, HONGJI’s broader technical documentation specifies potato flakes at approximately 92\u201394% dry matter<\/strong>, with starch, protein, microbiological and rehydration specifications controlled as part of the product specification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n U.S. FDA nutrition-labeling guidance also emphasizes that nutrient declarations are tied to defined serving sizes and reference Daily Values; for example, the current U.S. Daily Value for potassium is 4,700 mg and for dietary fiber is 28 g.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Potato Flakes Nutrition: A Detailed Nutritional Composition Analysis for Food Manufacturers and B2B Buyers Last Updated: September 2026 When purchasing potato flakes for industrial food production, nutrition data should not be treated simply as a consumer-facing nutrition label. 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\n\n\n\n1. Potato Flakes Are Nutritionally Concentrated Potatoes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0639\u0644\u0645\u0629<\/th> Typical Range \/ Specification<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0637\u0648\u0628\u0629<\/td> 5.5\u20138.0%<\/td><\/tr> Dry matter<\/td> 92\u201394%<\/td><\/tr> \u0627\u0644\u0637\u0627\u0642\u0629<\/td> 355\u2013375 kcal\/100 g<\/td><\/tr> \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0631\u0648\u062a\u064a\u0646<\/td> 6\u20139 g\/100 g<\/td><\/tr> Total carbohydrate<\/td> 80\u201385 g\/100 g<\/td><\/tr> \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0634\u0627<\/td> 70\u201380 g\/100 g<\/td><\/tr> Dietary fiber<\/td> 5\u20138 g\/100 g<\/td><\/tr> Total fat<\/td> \u22640.5\u20130.8 g\/100 g<\/td><\/tr> Sugars<\/td> \u22643 g\/100 g<\/td><\/tr> \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0648\u062a\u0627\u0633\u064a\u0648\u0645<\/td> approximately 1,100\u20131,600 mg\/100 g<\/td><\/tr> \u0627\u0644\u0645\u063a\u0646\u064a\u0633\u064a\u0648\u0645<\/td> approximately 40\u201360 mg\/100 g<\/td><\/tr> Phosphorus<\/td> approximately 120\u2013180 mg\/100 g<\/td><\/tr> \u0627\u0644\u062d\u062f\u064a\u062f<\/td> approximately 1.5\u20133.0 mg\/100 g<\/td><\/tr> \u0641\u064a\u062a\u0627\u0645\u064a\u0646 \u062c<\/td> approximately 10\u201325 mg\/100 g<\/td><\/tr> \u0641\u064a\u062a\u0627\u0645\u064a\u0646 \u06286<\/td> approximately 0.2\u20130.5 mg\/100 g<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n2. Nutritional Composition of Potato Flakes<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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\u0627\u0644\u0645\u063a\u0630\u064a\u0627\u062a<\/th> Typical Range \/ 100 g<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> \u0641\u064a\u062a\u0627\u0645\u064a\u0646 \u06286<\/td> 0.2\u20130.5 mg<\/td><\/tr> Niacin<\/td> 2.0\u20134.0 mg NE<\/td><\/tr> Thiamin<\/td> varies by variety\/process<\/td><\/tr> Riboflavin<\/td> relatively low<\/td><\/tr> Folate<\/td> relatively low<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n10. Sugar Content Is More Important to Manufacturers Than Consumers May Realize<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n11. Dry Matter Is the Hidden Number Behind the Nutrition Label<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n14. Example Nutritional Specification for Industrial Potato Flakes<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Nutrient \/ Parameter<\/th> Typical Industrial Range<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> \u0627\u0644\u0637\u0627\u0642\u0629<\/td> 355\u2013375 kcal<\/td><\/tr> \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0631\u0648\u062a\u064a\u0646<\/td> 6\u20139 g<\/td><\/tr> Total carbohydrate<\/td> 80\u201385 g<\/td><\/tr> \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0634\u0627<\/td> 70\u201380 g<\/td><\/tr> Dietary fiber<\/td> 5\u20138 \u063a\u0631\u0627\u0645<\/td><\/tr> Total sugars<\/td> \u22643 g<\/td><\/tr> \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0647\u0648\u0646<\/td> \u22640.5\u20130.8 g<\/td><\/tr> Saturated fat<\/td> \u22640.2 g<\/td><\/tr> Sodium<\/td> 10\u201380 mg<\/td><\/tr> \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0648\u062a\u0627\u0633\u064a\u0648\u0645<\/td> 1,100\u20131,600 mg<\/td><\/tr> Calcium<\/td> 20\u201340 mg<\/td><\/tr> \u0627\u0644\u0645\u063a\u0646\u064a\u0633\u064a\u0648\u0645<\/td> 40\u201360 mg<\/td><\/tr> Phosphorus<\/td> 120\u2013180 mg<\/td><\/tr> \u0627\u0644\u062d\u062f\u064a\u062f<\/td> 1.5\u20133.0 \u0645\u0644\u063a<\/td><\/tr> Zinc<\/td> 0.5\u20131.0 mg<\/td><\/tr> \u0641\u064a\u062a\u0627\u0645\u064a\u0646 \u062c<\/td> 10\u201325 mg<\/td><\/tr> \u0641\u064a\u062a\u0627\u0645\u064a\u0646 \u06286<\/td> 0.2\u20130.5 mg<\/td><\/tr> Niacin<\/td> 2\u20134 mg NE<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fiber higher = better
Starch higher = better
Moisture lower = better<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nHigher starch<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Lower moisture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Higher protein<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Lower reducing sugars<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Nutritional and physicochemical specifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Actual batch results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Confirm potato percentage and processing aids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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