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MUSTARD POWDER FROM MUSTARD SEEDS
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Mustard
is one of the leading oil seed crops of the country.
Although, it is mostly used for extraction of edible oil,
mustard seeds as such are also used extensively as a
seasoning material for flavour and pungency in different
food preparations. Dehusked mustard with its flavour and
pungency finds use as table mustard. A pasty product
prepared from mustard powder, salt and vinegar is very
popular in Eastern countries. Mustard powder is also used
as condiment in pickles, meat and salad dressings. Indian
black mustard, well known for its flavour and pungency,
and therefore it appears to have a good potential for
export if it can be processed to a quality product.
Presently, in India, a very small number of firms are
manufacturing the product and the technology as practised
by these industries has several operational problems and
offers a low product recovery,. The technology developed
by Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore,
India overcomes the drawbacks faced by these industries
and produces plain mustard powder with simple operations,
good product recovery and good quality control. This
powder can be used in the preparation of mustard paste,
table mustard and other mustard products. PROCESS Graded black mustard seeds are conditioned to loosen the husk, dried and then seeds are split and dehusked. The mixture of husk and cotyledons is screened and air classified into individual fractions. The cotyledons are ground to desire fineness in a triple roll mill to obtain mustard powder. SPECIFICATION: The product is found to have much better quality, the properties of the product in comparison to ISI specification is given below.
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NRDC
National Research Development Corporation, a Government of India Enterprise, is a premier technology transfer Corporation with four decades of experience. It has helped establish over one thousand projects in the small and medium scale sector. The supply of technologies and services to entrepreneurs extend both in the developing and developed countries like USA, Germany, Malaysia, Burma, Nepal, Senegal, Madagascar, Indonesia Philippines, Vietnam, Lanka, Kenya, Brazil, Bangladesh and Egypt.
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