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| Title: | Jaggery quality effected by hilly climatic conditions |
| Authors: | Chand, Khan
Singh, Anupama
Kulshrestha, Manoj |
| Keywords: | Jaggery
Moisture content
storage behavior
Gur |
| Issue Date: | Jan-2012 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: A61K 36/00, AO1G 17/00, AO1G 1/00, A47G 19/00, A23L 1/00, A23L 1/06 |
| Abstract: | Investigations were carried out for storage
behaviour of jaggery samples, stored in polythene bags, IISR bins and hanging
baskets under hilly climatic conditions of Uttarakhand. Samples were stored for
a period of five months during which changes in product parameters such as
moisture content, sucrose, reducing sugar and colour were determined at an
interval of 30 days. The study revealed that the quality of jaggery was
affected significantly by both containers as well as ambient conditions. All
the quality attributes like reducing sugar, sugar and colour were affected by
the storage conditions. Jaggery stored in IISR bins retained its quality throughout
the study, whereas jaggery samples kept in hanging baskets
and polythene bags deteriorated at faster rates. The moisture content jaggery
samples increased from an initial value of 11.02-24.32% in open storage, while
it only increased to 14.89% in bins and 15.84% in case of polythene bags.
Similarly the change in percentage of sucrose, reducing sugar and colour was
observed less for the samples kept in storage bins and polythene bags than for
the samples kept in open storage. Overall, IISR bin preserved the quality
better than the open and polythene bag storage. |
| Page(s): | 172-176 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.11(1) [January 2012]
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