GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Edward Anton Maria Asselbergs (1927–1996) was a Dutch-Canadian food chemist famous for inventing the modern process of producing instant mashed potato flakes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Flake-form instant mashed potatoes date back at least to 1954, when two United States Department of Agriculture researchers were issued a patent for “Drum drying of cooked mashed potatoes” (U.S. Patent 2, 759, 832), which describes the end product specifically being “as a thin sheet or flake".

Detailed explanation-3: -Potatoes are cooked and mashed, then crushed by rollers on the surface of a drum. The mashed potato is fast-dried until its humidity reaches the desired level, then the layer of dried, mashed potato is scraped from the drum. This sheet is broken up by a mill sifter, and the resulting flakes are then packed.