Processing Pasta for Ingredient Use

To determine what’s new in the area of manufacturing pasta for industrial (i.e., ingredient) use, I spoke with representatives of several pasta companies exhibiting at IFT’s Food Expo in New Orleans, La., last month.

Dave Potter (phone 816-584-5240), Executive Vice President of American Italian Pasta Co., Kansas City, Mo., said that pasta manufacturers have typically used small lines retired from production for sample making and research and development. This often resulted in questionable scalab…