Vegetarianism has been practiced because of several factors such as religious beliefs,
poverty, and unavailability of meat and meet based products and healthy practices. There is
a concern the diet related and recently ...
Concern about the impact of diet on health has led consumers to reduce the
consumption of high calorie foods in many countries. Health conscious consumers in Sri
Lanka often suffer from lack of suitable low calorie foods, ...
In Sri Lanka packeted and bottled raw milk are available in urban areas. Therefore this
study was carried out to detect the quality (adulteration problem) of packeted and bottled
raw milk. This adulteration problem has ...
Wine Is the end product of alcoholic fermentation of fruit juice. For wine manufacture, one of the most Important Ingredients Is yeast Usually wine yeast, which contain higher amount of Saccharomyces ellipsoideus is used ...
Fish is naturally available food resources in Sri Lanka Large fish production is obtained
annually Higher amount of this become waste because fish is highly perishable food
Therefore developments of fish preservation ...
Papaya fruits (Caries papaya) harvested at five stages of maturity ranging from dark
green to fully coloured (75% colour) fruit were tested for quality during storage.Dark green fruit developed yellow skin colour during ...
Net production of green chilli in Sri Lanka is 62,470 MT (in 1998). Green chilli is the second major export vegetable in Sri Lanka. Export quantity of the green chilli was 115,271 Kg(ln1999). Because of poor post harvest ...
Th e objective of the research is to prepare a nutritionally rich sandwich, which
has a shelf life of two weeks.The sandwich consists of two bread slices with a butter slice and a specially prepared meat slice in between ...
Experiment was carried out to increase the storage life of lime using modified atmosphere at 8-10° C. Fruits were packed in low density polyethylene bags with 200 and 300 gauge. At
each gauge half of the bags were vacuum ...
Mycotoxins are the natural toxic substances in foodstuffs and feedstuffs. Contamination of
those mycotoxins with foodstuffs and feedstuffs may cause various hazards to human health and his animal. However, aflatoxin is ...
dreading is generally used as an outer coating of crest range meat products It imparts
crispy oily and slippery mouth feet to crest range meat products A study carried out was
intended to further improve the quality of ...
Lotus (NeJumbo nuaforn or Nelumbium spedsum) stem is used as a vegetable with a good demand in the local marital Freshly harvested lotus stem can be kept only for 2 or 3 days in good quality in the ambient conditions. Due ...
Chocolate is now become a leading confectionery product in Sri Lanka, This study was directed towards identifying chocolate manufacturing process such as preparation of ingredients, mixing and refining Production methods ...
The TROPIFROT limited is the largest UHT treated milk producer in Sri Lanka.
This company has lost millions of rupees recently owing to a milk coagulation problem.
During this coagulation whey proteins separated from ...
Yoghurt-ice cream is a newly developed dairy product, which becomes popular among
Europeans and Americans. It is a fermented dairy product. The special features of this
product are its high nutritive value with all the ...
Keeflh foods such as low - calorie, lew - sugar or no - sugar and non - fat foods trends are tnoreeslng by consumer demand work) - wide Therefore the objective of this study was to introduce a fruit spread with no sdded ...
Milk is a high nutritive balanced food. It consists of valuable material such as proteins, fat, milk sugar(lactose), vitamins and etc. A range of ways are available to preserve milk by converting it in to value added ...
Kirfala ( Cocoyam - Cobcaste esculents and Xanlhosoma spp. ) is a perennial and
seasonal tuber crop It may have a b»g potential at the present market; if presented in a
competitive manner Despite the promising food value, ...
Sorghum (Sorghum bicotor (L) Moench) is a cereal having the nutritive value not less than the other cereals, It is used as a food grain as well as a feed grain. It can be easily cultivated in dry areas with low rainfall ...