Vol. 10, Issue 10 (2021)

Author(s):
Nikita Mishra, YK Jyoti and SK Jain

Abstract:
Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br., also categorized as P. Typhoides, P. Americanum or P. Spicatum) and domestically known as mahangu (Namibia), bajra (India) and dukhon (Senegal), is a cereal grass cultivated almost exclusively on a subsistence foundation with the aid of farmers in semi-arid parts of Africa and Asia. While bulrush millet is reduced into flour, that is often attributed to the deterioration of its triglycerides through lipolysis and next oxidation of de-esterifies unsaturated fatty acids. Ohmic heating may be a thermal procedure all through which heat is internally generated through the passage of alternating electric modern-day (AC) through a body like a food system that serves as an electrical resistance. Ohmic heating remedy of pearl millet grains at seventy two ºC (forty% moisture) for a hundred and twenty mins led to significantly decreased lipase interest in flour. Pasting residences decreased minorly but notably for peak viscosity with an increase inside the duration of ohmic heating temperature. As ohmic heating is an powerful and economically effective technique, it can be used for lipase inactivation in pearl millet. Those studies would be beneficial to the researcher, miller, retail seller, additionally as customer, because it might assist to save flour usable for a extended time without good sized changes in general quality. It might additionally encourage utilization of bulrush millet grains, which remains untapped regardless of its severa nutritious and therapeutic benefits.