PREPARATION OF PLANT MUCILAGE CLARIFICANTS AND THEIR EFFECT ON JAGGERY PROCESSING OF SUGARCANE VARIETY Co 86032

Lava Chikkappaiah,Harish Nayaka M A,Mahadevaiah ,Prashanth Kumar G M

doi:10.22159/ijpps.2017v9i12.22377

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https://doi.org/10.22159/ijpps.2017v9i12.22377

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Objective: The aim of the study was to prepare jaggery from sugarcane variety Co86032 using plants mucilage as clarificants and to determine the effect of plant mucilage on jaggery processing.Methods: Production of jaggery using five plant clarificants namely Aloe vera, Flax seeds, Fenugreek, Purslane and Malabar spinach at three different concentrations i.e., 0.1%, 0.2% and 0.4% of raw sugarcane juice and the jaggery prepared without any clarificants serves as control. During production, the processing parameters such as quantity of scum removed, total time taken for processing and jaggery yield was determined.Results: It was found that the jaggery prepared using plant mucilage at concentration of 0.4% found superior when compared to 0.2%, 0.1% and control respectively. Aloe vera at 0.4% removed maximum scum (4.07%), taken minimum processing time (72.33 min) and recorded maximum jaggery yield (10.92 kg). The efficacy of Aloe vera as mucilage clarificants in jaggery production was followed by fenugreek, flax seeds, purslane and Malabar spinach in the order respectively.Conclusion: The application of plants mucilage as clarificants in the jaggery production removed significant level of scum, reduced processing time and improved yield of jaggery. Therefore the selected plant mucilages can be used as clarificants in the jaggery production and can be considered as potential alternative to chemical clarificants.

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As a result of rapid growth in population, food and its safety remain to be the most important criteria for existence of life
The effect of plant mucilage clarificants on jaggery processing was assessed by amount of Scum (%), total processing time and Jaggery yield (%)
The mucilage clarificants of Aloe vera (JAV4) showed remarkable effect on formation of scum compared to other plant mucilage clarificants used in this study and control and the same was presented in fig. 1A

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As a result of rapid growth in population, food and its safety remain to be the most important criteria for existence of life. In an attempt to improve the business potential of jaggery, the manufactures are adding chemical clarificants at undefined rate during clarification. The chemical clarificants such as Hydros, sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, super phosphate alum, sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate, Tri sodium phosphate and magnafloc are used in the jaggery preparation [3,4,5]. To achieve the desirable colour the manufactures are adding excess hydrous which exceeds 50 ppm of sulphur dioxide which is not suitable for human consumption [8] and there is a need to replace the chemical clarificant with natural source of clarificants and minimal usage of chemical processing helps in retaining more minerals salts and phyto chemicals [9]

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