Comparative cost assessment of refined wheat and soy flour based chicken meat noodles

Noodles are most relished cereal based snack foods all over world. Variety of noodles are available such as salted noodles, unsalted noodles, cellophane noodles or starch noodles etc. and these are very much liked by young population. The cost of formulation for chicken meat based noodles was studied. The lowest cost of formulation was observed for refined wheat flour based chicken meat noodles having 40% chicken meat as compared to soya flour based chicken meat noodles having 50% chicken meat. The cost of formulation in both types of chicken meat noodles varied with change in the type of flour, change in the level of the chicken meat as well as variation in the processing cost.