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How to Make Sweet Potato Fruit Leather: Methods and Tips

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Fruit leather is sweet and tangy, whets the appetite, and is a delicious food suitable for all ages. Making fruit leather from sweet potatoes requires abundant raw materials, is simple to make, and costs little, so ordinary households can produce it. The making method is described below: 1. Material selection: Choose large sweet potato tubers with few fibers and rinse them clean with water. Peel them, remove both ends, trim off scars and impurities, and cut into appropriate pieces. 2. Softening: Immediately put the cut sweet potato pieces into boiling water and boil for 20 minutes (depending on whether the pieces have softened), with a ratio of sweet potato pieces to water of 1:1.5.

Fruit leather is sweet and tangy, whets the appetite, and is a delicious food suitable for all ages. Making fruit leather from sweet potatoes requires abundant raw materials, is simple to make, and costs little, so ordinary households can produce it. The making method is described below:

1. Material selection: Choose large sweet potato tubers with few fibers and rinse them clean with water. Peel them, remove both ends, trim off scars and impurities, and cut into appropriate pieces.

2. Softening: Immediately put the cut sweet potato pieces into boiling water and boil for 20 minutes (depending on whether the pieces have softened), with a ratio of sweet potato pieces to water of 1:1.5. Do not use an iron pot for boiling; an aluminum pot may be used.

3. Pulping and filtering: Mash the softened sweet potato pieces with a pulping machine, or grind them into pulp with a mill, then filter.

4. Boiling with sugar and concentrating: Pour the filtered pulp into a pot and boil it down. Because sweet potatoes contain less sugar, acid, and pectin, add 10% sugar, 1% citric acid, and 1% agar or pectin. Stir constantly during the boiling process, and when it has boiled to a thick consistency, it is ready to be taken out of the pot.

5. Spreading on trays: Evenly spread the concentrated paste onto a drying tray or white cloth to a thickness of about 3-5 mm. A stainless steel drying tray or porcelain tray may be used, or a tempered glass tray.

6. Baking: Carry this out in a drying room or drying oven, with the temperature adjusted to 50-60°C. Bake until it no longer sticks to the hand and can be lifted up as a sheet; at this point the moisture content is 18-20%.

7. Peeling off the sheet: When drying on a tray, peel off the sheet while it is still hot. When drying on white cloth, sprinkle water on the reverse side of the cloth, then peel off the fruit leather sheet and place it on a drying tray to bake off the surface moisture.

8. Packaging: Roll the sheet-like fruit leather into small rolls, then cut into small sections or small pieces, package in transparent cellophane, and it is ready for market @#@136@#@.

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