Abstract
Ragi (Eleusine coracana) is most popular and major finger millet in India. Nutritionally, Ragi is superior to Wheat and Rice because of its high Calcium (380mg), Dietary fibre (18g) and Phenolic compounds (0.03g-3g) per 100g.The investigation was done to optimize the process for developing Ragi-Wheat composite cake with more acceptability. Calcium is highly required for children and women especially during pregnancy and lactation period. The orthogonal array design was used to optimize the level of Rag flour and refined Wheat flour. Four different levels of Ragi flour and refined Wheat flour were used during experimentation. The sensory evaluation of the optimized product was done by the panel containing 100 members, while the chemical analysis of the same was done by using standard procedures. From the results, it was observed that cake with 20% Ragi flour most acceptable followed by 10 %, 15 %, control and 25 % Wheat-Ragi Composite cake
Highlights
Finger millet is commonly known as Ragi (Eleusine coracana) which is having family Gramineae
Sensory Evaluation of Developed Ragi-Wheat Composite Cake The sensory evaluation of the Wheat- Ragi composite cake such as appearance, colour, flavour, taste, texture and overall acceptability were evaluated by a panel consisting 100 members using nine points hedonic scale[10]
Sensory evaluation of Wheat-Ragi composite cake The sensory characteristics of ragi cake such as appearance, flavour (Aroma), taste, texture and overall acceptability were evaluated by a panel
Summary
Finger millet is commonly known as Ragi (Eleusine coracana) which is having family Gramineae. Finger millet is a cereal crop and is mostly preferred as staple food by the peoples from the arid and semi arid region. Millets are important foods in the many developing countries where adverse weather conditions like limited rainfall affects the agricultural production. The grain of ragi is similar to reddish mustered. It is harvested during December and January. Ragi contributes 25 % of overall food grains production. India and South Africa are major ragi producing countries. Karnataka (1630 MT), Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra (161 MT) are leading state of Ragi[2]
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