Preeti Ahluwalia
Punjab Agricultural University, India
Title: Assessment of storage stability and quality parameters of Echinochloa colona (jungle rice) and Pennisetum glaucum (pearl millet) pasta
Biography
Biography: Preeti Ahluwalia
Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate the storage stability and different quality parameters of pasta prepared by blending jungle rice and pearl millet in five different combinations ranging from 100 percent jungle rice, 75:25, 50:50, 25:75 to100 percent pearl millet. Prepared pasta was packed in Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) and High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) pouches and stored at ambient temperature for a period of three months. Quality assessments (proximate analysis, antioxidant activity, phenolic content, peroxide value, free fatty acids, β- carotene and flavonoid content) along with overall acceptability were done at one month internals up to three months of storage. Moisture content, peroxide value and free fatty acid content were found to increase significantly while other parameters decreased, maintaining the overall acceptability of pasta during storage life. Pasta stored in HDPE pouches retained better physicochemical and organoleptic quality as compared to LDPE during the entire storage period.