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The liquid sweetener made with cashew apples that has been introduced to the marketplace by Abhijnana Food Products Pvt. Ltd. nether the marque sanction Nitya. | Photo Credit: H.S. MANJUNATH
Food manufacturers successful the coastal loop person introduced value-added cashew pome products to the market, including muffins, a liquid sweetener, squash, and chunks.
Purchasing the technologies developed by the Directorate of Cashew Research (DCR), nether the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Puttur, Abhijnana Food Products Pvt. Ltd. of Puttur has released muffins and a liquid sweetener, besides called liquid jaggery, to the marketplace nether the company’s marque sanction Nitya.
The managing manager of the company, Radhakrishna Ittigundi, told The Hindu that the liquid sweetener tin beryllium stored astatine country somesthesia for 1 year, and the muffins tin beryllium stored for 5 days.
“The muffins are escaped from maida, artificial colours and flavours, and they are eggless,” helium said, adding that they are besides escaped from refined flour and thenar oil. Mr. Ittigundi besides said that liquid sweetener contains nary artificial colours, flavours, oregon preservatives.
“The debased calorie muffins incorporate vitamin C and antioxidants,” the managing manager said.
The manager of the DCR, J. Dinakara Adiga, said that the directorate's improvement of a liquid sweetener from cashew pome is simply a breakthrough successful cashew research. “It is the archetypal of its kind,” helium said.
Jyoti Nishad, a idiosyncratic successful nutrient technology, DCR, who developed the liquid jaggery, said that the merchandise has functional properties and precocious antioxidant 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. Its unsocial sweetener illustration makes it a imaginable campaigner successful the 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, she said.
Chunks and squash
Kuruveri Cashews, Chippar, adjacent Kasaragod, has introduced chunks, squash, and ‘prash’ (pomace) of cashew apples.
The proprietor of Kuruveri Cashews, V.K. Navyashree, told The Hindu: “We tin marque 2.5 kgs of chunks from 11 kgs of cashew apple. It contains zero additives. The probe and improvement are further nether mode successful the mentation of chunks.”
“We person truthful acold sold implicit 5 litres of squash,” she said, adding that the ‘cashew pome prash’ has medicinal worth and tin beryllium utilized arsenic an immunity booster.
According to the DCR, cashew apple, a by-product of cashew, is mostly underutilised. Despite being abundant, lone an estimated 10–15% of cashew apples are processed successful India. Over 80% of the apples are wasted annually.
