What You Should Know About Maize Grits Making Process

Maize grits is enriched of vitamins and fiber that is vital to our body building. And it is also an ingredient of many diets and staple food. Maize grits making machine is a universal agricultural machine used to process maize. Well, how much do you know about maize grits process?. Generally speaking, maize grits making process can be divided into maize cleaning, batching, degerming process (which includes maize kernel cleaning and degerming) and grinding process. We will introduce it one by one.

Maize Cleaning

Cleaning is the first process of making maize grits. It is aimed to remove the foreign material such as dust, stone, straw and others out of maize. The normal maize cleaning machine includes vibrating screen which is widely used to separate particles, dust, large or small impurities, air separation that can be used to remove low-density particle, and destining machine.

Batching

In order to maintain its moisture, clean maize is feed into blender. Water sprinkles are installed inside to spray some water for around 5-10minnutes.

Degerming Process

In degerming process, what you need to do first is fuel some water. Generally speaking, the fuel water should be 1.5%-2.0% of the entire maize, and remains for 40-60 minutes. 16%-18% moisture will keep embryo with tenacity. The left endosperm can be processed in maize oil and peel is available for livestock feed. In degerming process, we always use maize degerminator.

Grinding process

After cleaning and degerming, maize can be feed into grinding machine. Maize grinding making process is close to the final part of maize grits. After grinding process, maize grits and meal mixed product will be separated by screening machine. The separated maize grits is what we want, and the left will be first-class raw material of maize starch and sugar. In order to restore maize grits, we should put it into dryer and decrease its moisture to 14%.