Our Products
Maize is one of the top three important crops in Africa, ranking after Kasava and Sugar Cane. It is widely applied in food process, diet cooking, feed products and industrial fuel raw material.
Africa Outlook SNC offers a variety of high quality maize products. These include
Chakula ya Africa (White Maize Meal Premium Quality ),
Chakula ya Africa (White Maize Meal Super Quality) ,
Chakula ya kuku (Maize Grain for Animals),
Maize Grit , Chakula Ya Baby (White Maize Meal with Vitamins )
Our maize is fortified with vitamins and minerals for better health.
Product Benefits
According to a report of maize meal nutrition, maize contains rich fiber, no starch, and fat, which make it converted carbohydrates that is easily to be digested by our body. A lot of fiber accelerates the gastrointestinal peristalsis to help digestion and defecation. It is good to prevent constipation
A special carbohydrate in maize meal gives you a full sense and burns much fat than you eat. It means that you will not get hunger and meanwhile, have no worry of getting weight. Carbohydrate avoids the liver from using carbohydrate as fuel and meanwhile, it burns the body fat more than you eat. Maize flour’s benefits of weight-losing are especially favored by girls.
Maize meal is said to be helpful to prevent cancer by a variety of anti-cancer factors such as Magnesium, xanthophylls, and others. The anti-cancer factors can prevent the expansion of cancer cell. Furthermore, maize meal can also keep your skin smooth and prevent skin irritations.
MANUFACTURING PROCESS
Dried maize kernels are procured from appropriate vendors and stored in raw material warehouse for normal plant operation.
Cleaning and conditioning
Cleaning and conditioning of the maize is an important step in the process and refers to the removal of foreign material and all that is not maize kernels from the to-be milled grain that lowers the quality of the product such as husk, straw, dust, sand, and everything too big or too small and lighter than a maize kernel. It also refers to the removal of other seeds, and material harmful to the milling equipment such as metal and stones.
Cleaning Process involves an array of cleaning machine vibro separator, aspirators, destoners, magnetic separators etc. Each of this machine has its own contribution to cleaning effect
Conditioning refers to the addition of moisture to the maize to allow the bran to be peeled off in flakes during milling with plate or roller mills, allowing easy separation in a sifter and, most importantly, to add mass to the meal.
Milling and sifting
Roller type flour mills are used to grinding the grain, the different roller mills single roller mill, double roller mill and pneumatic roller mill, the mill adopted defines quality of flour produced. In a complete maize milling plant, there are several roller mill that work together, they have different functions, the first mill mainly primary grinding & separation of the hard outer covering, the second and third will grinding the maize into granular size, and meanwhile to get some super fine flour, and the granular sized product will go to the next mill to continue grinding. After each successive grinding double bin sifter or square plan sifter are used to sift the meal from the miller, classification and sifting more super flour. In general, the sifting is used to separate the flour and bran, also separate large size and small size to ensure flour quality. This process of grinding, sifting & blending flour is repeated until required quality flour is obtained.
Final product packing
After the maize is processed, it will come out in different final products like flour and grits. They are different from their granular size. For the packing, a Flour Packing Machine is adopted, and the flour is packed into 25 kg HDPE/PP bags, with a further Scope to pack in 5 kg, 10 kg bags.
About Chakula Ya Africa premium Maize Meal
- Chakula Ya Africa is our Premium maize meal. The superb quality is reflected in its taste, texture and colour
- Chakula Ya Africa Premium maize meal is our flagship brand, which is sold in across DR Congo The following factors contribute to Chakula’s exceptional high quality:
- Only white maize is accepted from suppliers. Chakula Ya Africa maize meal is amongst the whitest on the market, due to strict quality control when maize is received.
- All raw maize received at the Africa outlook mill is scrupulously inspected for foreign objects, insects, poisonous seeds, moisture content and grade of maize. If the irregularities are not within the set-out parameters, the entire load of raw maize is summarily returned to the supplier.
- On the three-hundred-micron sieve, twelve to fourteen percent is acceptable. The outcome is a better yield when cooking the final product, due to the exclusion of too fine particles that have a gluey structure when cooked.
- The vegetable fat content standard is below 0,8%. The lower the vegetable fat, the less bitter the cooked maize meal, offering a better taste and lasting longer before it gets spoiled or “turn sour”.
- Chakula Ya Africa maize meal is fortified with minerals and vitamins.
- The packaging is of superior quality, giving it a better look and feel.
