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Subject: Processing and Food Engineering × Author: Choubey, Diksha × End date: 2024 × Start date: 2020 ×
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    Process standardization for the development of finger millet mix jaggery chocolate
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, District Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand. PIN - 263145, 2022-10) Choubey, Diksha; Shahi, N. C.
    Chocolates in general are found to be poor in protein and high in fat, and excessive intake of chocolate leads to a variety of health problems due to excessive amount of refined sugar. Furthermore, chocolate does not have much nutritive value due to which it cannot be used as a supplement of nutritions. Therefore, sugar and milk powder were replaced by jaggery and finger millet flour respectively for improving the dietary contents. Jaggery is an unrefined sugar and is regarded as the healthiest sugar in the world since it has all of the minerals and vitamins found in sugarcane juice. Finger millet is a nutritionally rich nutri-cereal that is underutilized. Processing and value addition of such minor millet may help to fulfil the nutritional requirements of humans, as it is gluten-free and calcium-rich, which is advisable for stomach patients. Both jaggery and finger millet flour contain high nutritional value and are rich in fibres and minerals, so their incorporation into chocolate not only increases the nutritional value of chocolate but also improves textural properties. The present research work was, therefore, undertaken for the development of sprouted finger millet flour mixed jaggery chocolate, optimization of process parameter for quality chocolate and study of nutritional and textural characteristics of the developed chocolate. The independent variables selected were cocoa butter replaced with coconut oil (20, 25, 30 % w/w), conching time (120, 150, 180 min) and replacement of milk powder with sprouted finger millet flour (20, 30, 40% w/w). The moisture content (%), ash content (%), crude fat (%), crude protein (%), textural profile analysis (hardness, adhesiveness, cohesiveness and chewiness) and sensory characteristics were analyzed. The data from all 17 experiments were analyzed using Design Expert version 11.1.0.1 and the response functions were developed using multiple regression analysis. The optimum values of variables for maximum desirability of sprouted finger millet flour mixed jaggery chocolate were 22% cocoa butter replacement with coconut oil, 150 minutes conching time and 39 % replacement of milk powder with sprouted finger millet flour. The optimum values for responses were 5.16 % moisture, 2.66 % ash, 23.6 % crude fat, 9.87 % crude protein, , 8.12 mouthfeel, 305.6 N hardness, 2.14 N.s adhesiveness, 0.101 cohesivenesss, 4.07 N chewiness and 7.8 overall acceptability. Out of all process parameters, sprouted finger millet flour had highly significant (p<0.05) effect followed by conching time and cocoa butter replacement with coconut oil in all responses of development of sprouted finger millet flour mixed jaggery chocolate. On validation of the model for responses of developed chocolate, it was found that the developed model was accurate as an insignificant difference was observed between experimental and predicted values.