Department of Agricultural Process Engineering, Dr. A S College of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri-413 722 (Maharashtra)
1Ex. Head, Department of Agril., Process Engineering
The pomegranate juice is considered as the one of the nature's most powerful antioxidants. Excellent flavour, nutritive value and medicinal properties of pomegranate fruit indicates its good potentiality for processing into value added products. In India and other countries of the world the demand of fruit beverages are increasing regularly due to its nutritional, medicinal and calorific properties. Present investigation was undertaken to develop RTS beverage using spray dried pomegranate juice powder with added sugar and citric acid. Spray dried powder of pomegranate (Cv. Bhagwa) juice obtained with 154°C inlet air temperature, 87.5 mL/h feed flow rate and 37 per cent malto dextrine concentration were used to prepare the RTS premix. For standardization, pomegranate RTS was prepared with various levels of powder quantities (6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 g powder per 100 mL RTS), TSS (12, 13, 14, 15 and 16°Brix) and acidity (control, 0.20, 0.25, 0.30 and 0.35%). The results of sensory score indicated that the RTS developed using 8 g spray dried pomegranate juice powder per 100 mL RTS having 15°Brix total soluble solids and 0.30 per cent acidity was found to be best among all the levels.
Pomegranate, Spray dried powder, Ready-to-Serve, Beverages, Sensory analysis
