Protein rich extruded snack food from finger millet flour, oat flour, potato starch and whey protein isolate blends

  • Salunke, Siddhesh
Publication date
January 2016
Publisher
McGill University

Abstract

Extrusion cooking is a high temperature short time shear process used to transform raw ingredients into modified intermediate and finished products. It has been widely used in food industry as it offers continuous processing while maintaining significantly higher nutrient levels. Recent studies suggested that most snack foods available in the market are categorized under the "unhealthy or junk food" category due to their higher fat, sugar and salt contents, and lower protein content. Hence, the overall objective of this research was to prepare high-value protein-rich products through the use of extrusion processing. To achieve this broad objective, specific blends of finger millet flour, oat flour, potato starch and whey protein isolate (W)...

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