Development and performance evaluation of hand-operated mango seed decorticator.

Unlabelled: Mango seed kernel, a by-product of mango fruit can be consumed as the safe food if properly processed. A hand operated mango seed decorticator was developed to substitute the unhygienic and unsafe existing method. The device consisted of four major sections such as frame support, feeding unit, sliding unit and decorticating unit.

Isolation, characterization, modification and uses of taro starch: A review.

Taro is a major root crop utilized widely for diverse food and non-food applications. Taro corms are processed into various forms before consumption, which makes them digestible and palatable, extends the shelf life and reduces post-harvest losses. Taro corm contains starch as the major carbohydrate, accounting up to 70-80% of the whole dry matter.

Development of a packaging, storage and transportation cabinet for paddy straw mushroom.

Shelf-life of paddy straw mushroom could be extended to 3 days by pre-cooling mushrooms in air at 14 °C for 2 h followed by packing in 75 µ thick high impact polystyrene punnets with 1.2% perforations as primary package and subsequently stored in expanded polystyrene (EPS) cabinet as secondary package. The EPS cabinet has been designed for transportation of mushroom with ice as cooling aid to maintain the optimum storage temperature.