Nutritional, sensory, and shelf-life studies of micronutrients fortified, and dietary fibre enriched extruded snacks
摘要
In the twenty-first century, snacks have become an important feature of present-day human life, but lack essential dietary-fibre, vitamins, and minerals. In this context, aim of the study was to optimize the conditions for the development of a micronutrient fortified and fibre enriched extruded snack. The optimized snack had lateral-expansion-ratio (1.65), bulk-density (0.115 g/cm2), hardness (10.56N), water-solubility-index (23.1%), water-absorption-index (5.62 g/g), overall-acceptability (7.3), (Δa, 1.2), and (Δb, 1.2). The optimized extruded snack contained carbohydrate (48.19%), crude protein (7.6%), total dietary fibre (9.5%), crude fat (32.23%), moisture (2.17%), iron (222.8 mg/100 g), folic-acid (5.86 μg/g) and Vitamin-B12 (0.058 μg/g). The sensory attributes of peri-peri flavoured optimized extruded snack had the highest overall acceptability for determined sensory attributes. Storage stability of micronutrients was predicted using Arrhenius model. The activation-energy, Q10-value, and half-life for added micronutrients such as iron, folic acid, and vitamin-B12 were 20.651 kJ/mol°K, 1.3 and 1732.5-days (57-months), 57.56 kJ/mol°K, 2.07 and 577.5-days (19-months), and 45.53 kJ/mol°K, 1.77 and 301-days, respectively.