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ThesisItem Open Access Physico-Chemical and Functional Properties of Little Millet (Panicum miliare), Development and Efficacy of Little Millet Based Sports Food(UAS Dharwad, 2011) Roopa U.; Kasturiba B.Millets are being recognized as potential future crops and little millet (Panicum miliare) is one of the minor millet. In the present investigation, the physicochemical and functional properties of local genotype and Sukshema, an improved variety were studied for developing little millet based sports food. The Sukshema genotype with better physico-chemical and functional properties was selected for the purpose. Roasted flours of little millet, soybean, sugar powder, skimmed milk powder and cardamom powder were mixed such that the energy from protein in the mix was more than 15, as per the guidelines of ICMR. The porridge from the nutri-dense sports food mix was highly accepted by the consumers and 46.15 per cent of them revealed that they would eat the product at every given opportunity. The sports food had a shelf life of more than 180 days in metallized polyester polyethylene packs at ambient conditions. Carbohydrate loading with sports food improved the endurance capacity of sports persons (n=31) by 15.55 per cent under fasting condition. The improvement in endurance capacity with sports food as pre-event meal over routinely consumed pre-event meal was 1-5 per cent. The sports food supplementation for 90 days significantly improved the anthropometric parameters, haemoglobin status and physical fitness components viz., flexibility (0.86%), cardiac efficiency score (4.69%), strength (7.27%) and endurance capacity (26.86%) of the supplemented group (n=16) compared to control group (n=15). The technology for production of sports food was transferred to a food industry which launched the product into the market with attractive packaging.