DEVELOPMENT OF NUTRITIOUS DRIED POWDER FROM JACKFRUIT BULB AND SEED

The jackfruit is a seasonal fruit with a very short duration of availability in the market. Huge amount of fruit is lost. It is needed to preserve this nutritious fruit, so that it can be served round the year. In this respect a research has been taken to preserve the fruit bulb and seed in the powder form. A powder product has been developed by using different ratio of jackfruit seed and bulb from locally available jackfruit and preserved it for further uses. Different characteristics of powder such as the total quantity of jackfruit powder, moisture content, protein, total sugar, total reducing sugar, vitamin C and β-carotene were investigated in this study. Protein content of the samples varied from 6.25% to 13.43%. It indicates that the amount of protein is increased with the increasing of seed powder. β – Carotene content of the sample varied from 74.28 μg/100 g to 54.04 μg/100 g. It indicates that the amount of β-carotene was decreased with increasing seed powder. Mineral percentage of different treatment contain high amount of potassium, phosphorus and zinc with significant amount of other mineral. So this type of product was also enriched with high protein, Vitamin C, β-carotene and mineral.