IIT Kharagpur to come out with functional health snacks
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 19 December 2007, 01:30 IST
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Kolkata: Agricultural and Food Engineering Department of IIT Kharagpur, has been working on health snacks since the past two years and in the next two years, will come out with a product that will be nutrient-rich with medicinal values, said Head Prof H N Mishra, who is the guide of the research team. "The changing lifestyles and climate have led to all sorts of lifestyle diseases like obesity, cardiac arrest, diabetes, thyroid problems and many more. Hence, we decided to invent such a food that will work as a supplement for all nutrition," added Prof Mishra. The snacks would be designed in a manner to fight cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular problems. The new snack might come in the form of current day 'Kurkure' or potato wafers but with plenty of nutritional value, said Mishra. Prof Mishra has his contribution towards the invention of fruit juice powder (tomato), instant soluble tea, ginger powder, fruit bars, full-fat soy flour, enzymatic detoxification of aflatoxin, mango soy fortified yogurt powder and 'dahi' powder. The Union Food Processing Ministry had already sanctioned Rs 50 lakh for the equipment required in the project, which is yet to be patented.

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