Central Plantation Crops Research Institute comes out with four more coconut-based value-added products

The Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI), Kasaragod, Kerala, has travel retired with 4 much coconut-based value-added products.

The products — Kalpa kulfi, Kalpa wafer cones, Kalpa velvet (dark chocolate) and Kalpa Qbitz (nata de coco) — volition beryllium released during the 110th instauration time of the institute, nether the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), astatine Kasaragod connected Monday, according to manager of the institute K. Balachandra Hebbar.

Kalpa kulfi

Kalpa kulfi is simply a non-dairy, coconut milk–based frozen delight connected a stick, offering a affluent and creamy rima consciousness with a distinctive coconut flavour.

Formulated utilizing coconut beverage and coconut sugar, and flavoured with cardamom, it is simply a vegan merchandise escaped from dairy ingredients. The inclusion of coconut beverage makes the merchandise affluent successful indispensable vitamins, minerals, and steadfast fatty acids. “Kalpa kulfi presents a wholesome, plant-based alternate to accepted dairy kulfi portion promoting the worth summation of coconut-based ingredients,” Mr. Hebbar told The Hindu.

Kalpa wafer cones

Kalpa wafer cones are crispy and crunchy, nutrient-rich wafer cones developed utilizing composite flour formulations based connected saccharine murphy flour and enriched with coconut milk, coconut sugar, and coconut beverage residue. The incorporation of coconut-based ingredients enhances the dietary fibre contented and contributes indispensable vitamins, minerals, and health-promoting fatty acids. With a balanced proximate creation of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and crude fibre, the wafer cones connection a nutritionally superior alternate to accepted wafer cones and beforehand the sustainable utilisation of coconut by-products, the manager said.

Kalpa Qbitz

Kalpa Qbitz is an elite blend of fibre-rich cubic bits of ‘Nata de coco’ with the sweetness and nutriments of coconut neera. With the finest prime ingredients from coconut and spiced up with earthy flavours, Kalpa Qbitz offers a unsocial consciousness of saccharine and nutrient affluent juicy gel bites. Qbitz, referring to ‘nata cube bits’ is produced from mature coconut h2o utilizing elite bacterial strains identified astatine CPCRI, Mr. Hebbar said.

Kalpa-Velvet

Kalpa Velvet is simply a cocoa-coconut-cashew bean-to-bar acheronian cocoa delight. The cocoa-coconut cashew bean-to-bar acheronian cocoa is an innovative confectionery merchandise developed successful a collaboration mode betwixt CPCRI and the Directorate of Cashew Research, Puttur, Dakshina Kannada, with a absorption connected nutritional worth and sustainability. The merchandise showcases the usage of coconut-derived ingredients, peculiarly coconut sweetener and low-fat coconut flour (or coconut beverage residue) combined with high-quality cocoa and cashew butter, delivering a unique, wholesome cocoa experience, the manager said.

Some of the coconut-based value-added products released by the CPCRI earlier included Kalpa Bliz which was a flavoured ready-to-drink coconut beverage; sweetener and jaggery from ‘neera’ (a saccharine sap from coconut palm), coconut chips, virgin coconut lipid and desiccated coconut.