Today i picked up an indian rice type snack from the supermarket called poha (i live in india btw) and you just need to add boiling water and leave it aside for just 3 minutes. How does this cook? Like ik the pressure and steam all help but is this already cooked halfway and if i eat raw what will happen etc. ?
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Food products, generally starches and proteins, undergo physical changes in the presence of moist heat. To make a food “instant”, the manufacturer will cook/make the product in the factory similarly to how you would at home. Steeping coffee/tea in boiling water, boiling rice/pasta/potatoes etc. After the product is cooked, it gets dried on a variety of different types of dryers. Spray dryers for like coffee or tea spray the liquid into a fine most inside a heated chamber. There is also a drum dryer for things like potatoes. The cooked and mashed potatoes are passed between two heated drums and then scraped off once it is dried.
Adding boiling water at home is simply adding the water back to the product that was dried off at the factory.
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