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ABOUT THE BOOK

Through the centuries we have acquired a wealth of information about the use of food as a part of our community, social, natural and religious life. In recent years nutritional science has advanced in many directions and has sometimes become highly technical that it is often difficult for an expert in one particular field to view his or her work clearly in relation to other closely allied developments. One of the most important area of development is food processing. Food processing and value addition are the need of the hour. The literature on food processing is extensive in its detailed treatment of specific commodities, unit operations and control methods. However, an attempt has been made to provide as much knowledge as possible in a nut shell in the following 41 chapters covering all aspects of grain processing. It is very important for all those who deal with food to understand scientific basis of methods of grain processing. The book deal with need and importance of grain processing, chemistry, composition, quality aspects, utilization, scope for diversification (novel and alternative), role in human nutrition, enzyme technology in food industry, relevant technology, industrial applications. Processing equipment for grains, rice bran and its utilization and commercial processing methods, processing of soyabean and other grains improve the status value of grain and reliability of value added products which in turn improves the economic status in rural and urban areas. Increasing in purchasing power definitely contributes to better nutritional status of the population at large. Value addition by food processing is a must for rural development.

This publication can be a useful reference book to UG and PG students of Food & Nutrition and Food Science, and Teachers of Grain Technology, Home Economists, Nutritionists and staff of warehousing Corporation. This book will also be of interest to Industrialists, Researchers, Academicians and all other fields related to grain processing.

 

CONTENTS

S. No.	Title	Page
	Perface	3
	About the Book	4
	About the Editors	5
	Contributors	8
I. General
1.	Need and importance o f grain processing	15
2.	Quality standards o f food grains in India	21
3.	Quality control through standardization	35
4.	Production o f base materials o f food grains for promoting processing industry	40
5.	Enzyme technology in food industry with special reference to baking	47
6.	Extrusion cookers and their applications	53
7.	Processing equipment for grains	56
8.	Low-cost traditional and improved device for roasting and puffing o f grains	69
II. Cereals
9.	Composition and quality aspects o f rice	79
10.	Technology relevant to rice based products	86
11.	Rice milling technology	91
12.	Rice bran and its utilization	103
13.	Advances in parboiling techniques o f paddy	108
14.	Technology and importance o f cereal malts	115
15.	Wheat quality and composition	119
16.	Wheat milling technology – recent developments	121
17.	Technologies relevant to wheat based products	124
18.	Processing o f sorghum – scope for diversification	128
19.	Maize chemistry – scope for diversification	139
20.	Effect o f secondary processing methods on the nutritional quality o f cereals and millets	148
III. Millets
21.	Millets-composition and quality	153
22.	Commercial primary processing methods o f millets	170
23.	Machinery and engineering applications in grain processing	172
24.	Technologies relevant to value added products with minor millets	192
25.	Pulses – household methods o f primary processing and its impact on yield and nutrients	198
26.	Utilization o f horse gram in India – scope for novel and alternative uses	203
IV. Pulses
27.	Role o f pulses in human nutrition	215
28.	Utilization o f pigeon pea and chick pea in India and scope for novel and alternate uses	222
29.	Pulse milling technology	228
V. Oil Seeds
30.	Soya bean seed quality and technology o f processing soya bean at industrial and rural areas	233
31.	Simple technologies for making soya products	238
32.	Food applications o f soy products	249
33.	Oilseeds scenario in India – retrospect and prospect	258
34.	Biochemical and nutritional quality o f cultivars oil seeds and their products	262
35.	Industrial applications o f oils and fats	269
36.	Oilseeds and their by product utilization	279
37.	Methods o f using unconventional oils seeds	283
38.	By products from oilseeds and their utilization	286
39.	Technology o f oilseed’ s processing – recent developments	293
VI. Baking
40.	Raw materials requirements in baking Industry	303
41.	Biscuit industry in the country	309
	Subject Index	312

 

 

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Professor V. Vimala was born in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India on 28.5.1945 and has graduated from SIET women’s college, Madras after which she has completed her Post graduation at Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh. She received KoKi Narayanamma award for standing First in the University at M. Sc level. Her career started in 1974 at Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University as a research assistant, Associate Dean and Member, Board of management, ANGRAU which is the highest honour in the University. According to her students, she is a good teacher with excellent communication skills, capable of translating latest research findings into teaching modules. She is known to inculcate knowledge, skills and moral strength in her students. She has guided 30 M.Sc. and 4 Ph.D. students, some of whom have received highest awards at national level. She is a colleague friendly professor extending a helping hand to her staff in the department as well as in the college. A most unassuming personality, Dr. Vimala received three meritorious teacher awards in recognition of her dedicated service in the university in 1986, state level in 1997-98, and National level during 1996-98 (ICAR award). She is not only a good teacher but also a precise research worker. So far she has manned 10 research projects and handed over a 36 lakh project funded by APNL, to her colleagues while retiring in 2005. She has 90 research papers to her credit both in national and international journals of repute. She has several popular articles to her credit along with contributed book chapters, books and practical manuals. In recognition of her experience in Post harvest technology of Food grains, Government of India, nominated her as country expert in Post harvest Technology as early as 1988 and by virtue of which she handled a consultative project funded by CIRDAP, Bangladesh on “Training of Rural Women in Post Harvest Loss Prevention”, Under Centre of Advanced Studies she was instrumental in conducting and organizing several advanced training programmes in frontier areas of nutrition for staff of state agricultural universities. She is a life member of several scientific organizations which shows her enthusiasm for acquiring knowledge and has presented papers in several national and international seminars. She had the opportunity to visit several universities in Seoul, Srilanka, Thailand, Phillipines and Australia as part of study tours to improve the academic programmes of the Home Science faculty. It is very difficult to be both a good research worker as well as a dedicated extension worker. She is one of those few people who are both. Her tenure in ANGRAU has taught her good extension skills by which she has conducted several field level training programmes. Her operational research goals are very much evident in the interest she showed in pushing the alternative uses of Sorghum in dryland farming areas to uplift their economic and nutritional status. As an administrator for 6V2 years she was able to extract the maximum cooperation from teaching and non teaching staff and continuous support of university officers.

Professor (Mrs) Vijaya Khader, Dean, Faculty of Home Science, Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University is Post graduate in Foods and Nutrition from S. V. University, Tirupathi and did her Ph. D from CFTRI, Mysore in 1976 in the field of utilization of Pulse Protein. During the academic year 1976-77 she was a Post Doctoral Fellow and worked on formulation and evaluation of infant foods and toxicological studies on petroleum yeast. She is the recipient of Marry Clark Memorial Scholarship (Canada-USA), CS1R fellowship and FAO fellowship. She has specialized in the fields of Food composition and quality, Food processing and nutritive value, Nutrient absorption and utilization, Food product development, Community nutrition, Mushroom cultivation, Spawn preparation and Toxicological studies.

She has many awards to her credit – State Best Teacher Award 1998, Women of the year – 1998 & 2000 by American Bibliographical Institute; Bharathamata Award in 2001 by Astrological Research Project, Viswa Jyothi Parishad, Calcutta; Best Citizen of India – 2202 by International Publication House, Fellow of Association of Food Scientists and Technologist (India) – 2003. She also received Appreciation Certificate from ICAR in 1998.

As an author she received honorarium from ICAR and UGC for writing university level text books titled Food Science and Technology, Food Storage and Preservation, Preservation of Fruit and Vegetable respectively. She is receiving royalty on her books on Mushrooms for livelihood and Foods, Nutrition and Health. Further she has coauthored a text book on Income Generating Viable Technologies and Poverty, house hold food security and nutrients in rural areas of Ananthapur and Rural Women – A focus on economic development. She has published 107 research papers in National (93) and International (14) Journals and 122 popular articles.

A total of 18 ad hoc research projects are there to her credit as Principal investigator, funded by various National and International Organisations. As a part of the project funded by NATP in the field of fisheries, she fabricated two equipments viz. Low cost ice cream freezer and Multipurpose fresh fish vending and display table and patented them, which is first of its kind in ANGRAU, These equipments are further licensed as women Entrepreneur equipments.

A good number of abroad visits are on her record. Visited US State Universities – Michigan, Maryand, Iwoa, Texas and Washington DC and in UK, Universities of Wales, Banger, Nottingham, London, Egypt, Netherlands and Italy. She has attended 8th Asian Congress of Nutrition at Seoul, South Korea. Presented a paper on Nutritional stauts and socio economic empowerment of fisher women in Coastal eco system of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamilnadu in the 7th Asian Fisheries Forum – 2004 held in Pena nag, Malaysia from 30th November to 4th December 2004. Apart from this she participarted in number of National and International seminars and presented papers.

In various capacities, she performed the role of administrator effectively and efficiently for 20 years. Her zeal for rural women development, directed her towards preparation of print and electronic communication materials.