PRODUCTION AND EVALUATION OF DIETARY FIBER FROM CITRUS WASTE FOR FORTIFICATION OF "JUNK" FOODS

📄 Project Abstract

Citrus fruits are one of the commercially grown fruits and are high in phytochemicals and biologically active substances that have health benefits. However, the processing of citrus fruits generates approximately 50% waste (in the form of peel, pulp, seeds, pith, and so on), which is generally discarded into the environment, causing pollution. Coronary heart disease, diabetes, and stroke are all common in today's world as a result of habitual consumption of "junk" foods. Citrus waste dietary fiber added to "junk" foods may aid in disease prevention. The fortified "Junk" foods with percentage citrus waste fiber inclusion are; cake and doughnut (15% as wheat flour and fat replacer); ice-cream (2% as adjunct); and sausage (10% as wheat flour and fat replacer). The products were evaluated for proximate composition, Lab colour, microbial load, and sensory acceptability having the unfortified products as the control in each of the product. The citrus waste dietary fiber powder produced exhib...