Bharati, PushpaMesta, Divya Parmeshwar2021-11-072021-11-072017-06https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810177851A survey conducted by the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad in Uttara Kannada district (Sirsi, Joida, Yallapur) of Karnataka (n=30) during the year 2016-17 depicted that lot of minor tubers were collected, grown and consumed in the form of boiled, steamed, and fried. The tubers were processed with spices or sweeteners. Varieties of traditional products were prepared using tubers and consumed in their regular diet. These tubers were used for curing ailments, like- diabetes, hypertension, paralysis, fever, stomach ache, piles etc. Arrowroot is used for weakness and dysentery. Haalu makkala gadde and aarati kundige are used as galactogogue. Fourteen minor tubers selected from Joida were studied for physico-chemical characters, nutritional composition and value addition potential in the department of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Rural Home Science, Dharwad. Significant difference was observed among minor tubers for proximate, carbohydrate, and mineral composition. The protein, fat, carbohydrate, dietary fiber, starch and energy content of the tubers ranged from 4.14 to 8.73 g, 0.07 to 0.67 g, 76.92 to 85.56 g, 4.80 to 12.13 g, 33.97 to 69.18 g and 349 to 368 kcal per 100 g of sample respectively (dwb). Iron and zinc ranged between 0.45 to 3.31 mg/100 g and 0.56 to 6.93 mg/100 g respectively. The higher acceptability indices of cutlet (89.69), and paratha (87.80) made with lesser yam, pakoda (89.63) made with greater yam- lion foot type, finger chips (79.98) and sev (93.81) made with tannia bulbs have shown that the tubers were suitable for value addition. The flour yield ranged from 25.24 to 28.24 per cent with considerable physico-chemical and functional properties. Cookies prepared with greater yam- lion foot type and tannia bulb flours received acceptability indices of 88.15 and 86.78 per cent respectively at 50 per cent incorporation and were on par with control cookies.EnglishThesis