Dr. H. ARUN KUMARDr. M. VENKATESH)HARSHA V. K.2021-01-132021-01-132017-08https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810159981Tulsi is known as “The mother medicine of nature”. Tulsi i.e. Ocimum sanctum is a plant with enormous properties for curing and preventing diseases. Leaves and flowering tops are used for extracting essential oil. Oil of O. sanctum has revealed the presence of five fatty acids (stearic, palmitic, oleic, linoleic and linolenic acids). Tulsi contains vitamin A, vitamin C and minerals like calcium, zinc and iron, as well as chlorophyll and many other phytonutrients. Tulsi blended flavoured milk developed by blending of Tulsi and replacing cane sugar by low calorie sweeteners improved the nutritional and therapeutic benefits. Tulsi enhances the efficient digestion, absorption and use of nutrients from food. It also possess antibacterial, antioxidant, antiulceric, antimalarial, antidiabetic, anti-inflammatory, antilipidemic, anticancer and immune modulatory properties. It was observed that blending of Tulsi at 0.5 per cent, replacing of cane sugar by FOS upto 50 per cent and addition of CMC at 0.2 per cent was optimum for the flavoured milk. The developed low calorie Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum) blended herbal flavoured milk can be stored for 6 days at 5±1ºC in the glass bottles treated with 71 ºC/30 min.EnglishThesis