Vol. 12, Issue 8 (2023)

Author(s):
Krishnananda Nayak, Chinmaya Kishore Bakhara, Kalpana Rayaguru, Uma Sankar Pal and Sanjaya Kumar Dash

Abstract:
A dessert is a type of food that is eaten after lunch or dinner and sometimes after a light meal or snack. Dessert usually a sweet course or dish (as of pastry, ice-cream or sweet) served at the end of a meal. It is usually a sweet food. In India, Mithai (sweets) are the confectionery and desserts of the Indian subcontinent. Traditionally cheese-based sweets like Burfi, Brown peda, Chhenapoda, Chhana roll, Chhena jhilli, Brown peda, Rasabali, Gulabjamun, Thari Kanchi payasam, and Sheerqurma prepared by adding different ingredients with cottage cheese and foxtail millet halwa, coconut milk, rose flavoured milk, blended vegan milk are considered as dessert products which are available in the market with low shelf life. Retort processed technology is extensively used for production of long life ready to eat products of various types; sweets, vegetables products, dairy products, food products, fruits and dessert products. Retort is a closed chamber that can withstand high temperature and pressure to heat food in a closed container to kill the microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses, there by prolonging the shelf life of the food.