Amorphophallus konjac
Common name: Elephant yam
Other common names: Devil's tongue, Elephant foot, Leopard palm, Snake palm, Snake plant, Umbrella arum, Voodoo lily
Description
Source ingredient for gluten free products, low carbohydrate pasta or noodles and in general food for diabetics.
Growing: Tubers are harvested after 2 to 3 years when the contain more than 30% glucomannan, the active food additive principle. To produce the flour from which the glucomannan is extracted, the tubers are washed and cleaned after harvesting, chipped into small pieces, dried and ground or milled.
Problem features: The flour is fine particled flour is to be a respiratory irritant at high concentrations in the air, for example in factories environments where the flour is manufactured.
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