A Review on Value Added Products from Banana Viswanath Aarthy, Venugopal Arun Prasath* Department of Food and Agricultural process Engineering, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India *Email: arun16foodengg@gmail.com
Online published on 2 January, 2017. Abstract Banana fruits are available in plenty in the Tropical countries like India, and a sizeable quantity of this fruit is wasted due to poor transportation and storage facilities. It is highly nutritive and very delicious. India ranks first amongst the banana cultivating countries of the world with an annual production share of 25% of the total harvest. Mostly bananas are eaten both raw, in the ripe state, or as a cooked vegetable, and only a very small proportion are processed in orderto obtaina storableproduct. Therefore processing and product development using bananas is of utmost importance. Various processed products like figs, clarified juice, banana powder, flour, starch, jam, chips, stem candy and fermented products like ethanol, brandy and beer are prepared and used commonly in India. Scaleup of this technology provides an excellent scope for the development ofnonconventional products from banana. Top Keywords Banana, Value added products, Banana products. Top |