Directorate of Cashew Research in Puttur develops liquid sweetener from cashew apple that could push sugar out of your diet

Directorate of Cashew Research (DCR), nether the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Puttur successful Dakshina Kannada territory of Karnataka, has developed a liquid sweetener (liquid jaggery) from cashew apple.

“The improvement of liquid sweetener from cashew pome is simply a large breakthrough successful cashew research. It is archetypal of its kind,” said J. Dinakara Adiga, Director, DCR.

Jyoti Nishad, Scientist, Food Technology, DCR developed the liquid jaggery. She said that the merchandise has functional properties and precocious anti-oxidant activity. It has assorted minerals similar potassium, zinc and iron, and is precocious successful soluble fibre. The cashew pome sweetener tin beryllium utilized successful spot of honey. The unsocial sweetener illustration makes it a imaginable campaigner successful bakery and confectionery industries.

“The glycemic scale of this liquid jaggery comes nether the mean category, providing a bully alternate for radical who are looking for steadfast sweeteners,” Ms. Nishad said.

The merchandise has a support beingness of much than 1 twelvemonth and, hence, has the imaginable to revolutionalise the sweetener industry, she added.

A patent has been filed for this technology. Considering the user-friendliness of the technology, it is expected to pat the marketplace arsenic a sustainable, differentiated sweetener with viable B2B and premium retail channels, Mr. Adiga said.

Cashew apple, a by-product of cashew, is mostly under-utilised. Despite being abundant (apple-to-nut ratio ~8–10:1 by weight), lone an estimated 10–15% of cashew apples are processed successful India. The effect is highly perishable and astringent owed to tannins. Over 80% of apples are wasted annually owed to deficiency of due processing exertion and acold chains.

Goa is the lone State successful India that could pat the imaginable of the effect owed to the age-old contented of feni (traditional distilled liquor) preparation.

The directorate has been consistently moving towards worth summation of cashew pome for ensuring further income for cashew farmers successful India, and for helping the nutrient manufacture to pat the imaginable of this fruit, the Director said.