Computer Administered Banana Flour Processing System

Class C Cavendish Bananas or Musa cavendischii though are mostly deemed worthless, can be processed into food-grade banana flour. This can be done through dehydration and pulverization. Some institutions have been doing this but lacks the efficiency of automated technology for they have been making use of manual dehydration processes like sun drying & household oven drying, resulting into massive longevity of banana flour processing. The developed system is an automated integration of microprocessor into mechanical machinery, processing bananas into banana flour with an interactive user interface-efficiently speeding up the usually manual process with a single click. Reducing the dehydrating time exponentially from 24-48 hours to 2 & a half hours at 90 degrees C and the milling time was timed at 3 minutes at the most for 1 kg of peeled input, showing the efficiency of the processing system through the statistical analysis of the data gathered from multiple testing. Therefore, the system is capable of providing the promised improvement in the efficiency of banana flour production.