Vol. 12, Issue 8 (2023)

Author(s):
Zeenat Aman, Sadhna Singh, Mridula Pandey, Vishal Mehta, Pratibha Singh and Supriya

Abstract:
Geriatrics benefits from nutrient- dense convenience foods as they provide essential nutrients for aging bodies and simplifies meal preparation, ensuring easier access to well- balanced diets. Due to the changing lifestyle and migration of children outside for their jobs the increasing numbers of elderly are now a day’s living alone or residing in elderly care facilities. They are not able to cook properly to feed themselves. Therefore, development of millets based nutrient- dense ready to eat food products will enable them to get sufficient nutrients. Keeping this in mind, the study on development of ready- to eat food products was carried out. Three products namely Ragi Oats Cookies (Snacks), Crispy Sawan Sticks (Savoury food), Ragi Makhana Booster Shake (Drink) were successfully standardized and its sensory acceptability and nutritional quality was assessed. The results of the study revealed that cookies containing Ragi: Oats 75:25 were rated best with a sensory score 8.62 which means were extremely liked by panel members. Crispy snacks prepared from Sawan (little millet) was prepared using different flavours like curry leaves, moringa leaves and mint leaves. The Sawan Sticks with mint leaves were extremely liked by panel members with mean sensory score 8.63. Ragi Makhana Booster (75:25) was rated best with overall acceptability score 8.5 means liked extremely on nine point hedonic rating scale.