Patent ID: 7297358

Claim:
A process for making dehydrated potato ingredients comprising the steps of: (a) cooking potato pieces; (b) forming the cooked potato pieces into a potato mash; (c) drum drying the potato mash at a drum temperature of from about 121° C. to about 191° C. to provide dehydrated potato ingredients as a sheet; (d) optionally comminuting the dehydrated sheet; and (e) adding from about 0.005% to about 0.1% of an emulsifier system just prior to step (b); wherein the emulsifier system is alpha-stable and comprises a mixture of (i) a polyglycerol ester having a polyglycerol backbone of from 2 to about 10 glycerol units wherein not more than about 40% of the hydroxyl groups of the polyglycerol are esterified with fatty acids (PGE), (ii) a DATEM, and (iii) lecithin.