Vol. 11, Special Issue 2 (2022)

Author(s):
J Manisha, T Roja, S Saipriya, R Jayaprakash, G Rajender and R Swamy

Abstract:
Borassus flabellifer is greek word commonly known as Palmyra palm. Neera is unfermented toddy obtained from palmyra trees. Many of the people are consuming the sap in the form of neera or toddy. Palm jaggery is a sugar rich and high medicinal properties product. There is a huge demand in the market for high nutritive products made with jaggery in place of refined sugar. This study was conducted to develop palm jaggery based chocolates. The palm jaggery chocolates, Sugarcane jaggery chocolates and Sugar based chocolates were prepared with different proportions of palm jaggery, sugarcane jaggery and sugar. i.e., 50%, 50% and 50% respectively. The developed palm jaggery chocolates were compared with sugarcane jaggery and Sugar based chocolates through proximate and sensory analysis. These developed palm jaggery chocolates were acceptable with good flavor and desirable textural properties.