Abstract
Bael (Aegle marmelos Correa) being an indigenous fruit occupies an important place from medicinal point of view. The different varieties of Bael such as Mirzapuri, Kagzi Gonda, Kagzi Banarsi, Kagzi Etawah, Narendra Bael-1, Narendra Bael-2, Narendra Bael-5, Narendra Bael-9, Pant Shivani, Pant Sujata, etc are popular. Its nutritional and medicinal properties make this fruit one of the most valuable and a good source of nutrients, and qualities to cure diarrhoea, dysentery and other stomach ailments. This fruit have unlimited potential in its processed form. Bael can be processed to prepare jam, squash, nectar, toffee, slab, powder, ready-to-serve (RTS), wine, etc. The present paper therefore deals with the processing of bael into different products and the medicinal aspects together with physico-chemical changes in bael fruit. Key words: Aegle marmelos, bael, medicinal properties, processing aspects, nutritional properties.
Highlights
A method to prepare bael fruit powder was developed by Rastogi et al (2005) that consists of spray drying a fruit pulp of bael to obtain a free-flowing, yellow-red powder with good shelf life
Bael (A. marmelos) fruit has a lot of potential to be processed for value addition
The selected pharmacological studies have been conducted on different parts of this fruit and the literature supports the potential of bael fruit to be processed and formulated to prepare number of products
Summary
Bael (Aegle marmelos Correa) being an indigenous fruit occupies an important place from medicinal point of view. The different varieties of Bael such as Mirzapuri, Kagzi Gonda, Kagzi Banarsi, Kagzi. Its nutritional and medicinal properties make this fruit one of the most valuable and a good source of nutrients, and qualities to cure diarrhoea, dysentery and other stomach ailments. This fruit have unlimited potential in its processed form. Bael can be processed to prepare jam, squash, nectar, toffee, slab, powder, ready-to-serve (RTS), wine, etc. The present paper deals with the processing of bael into different products and the medicinal aspects together with physico-chemical changes in bael fruit
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