Harish Kumar

Amity University Rajasthan Jaipur India · Amity Institute of Biotechnolgy (Food Technolgy)

This study aimed to determine the effect and potential of red rice in conjunction with barley and rhododendron extracts to develop a new variant of beer. In this study red rice, barley, and rhododendron extracts were used in different combinations and the best combination was selected based on quality and sensory characteristics. The results showed...

Bovine colostrum (BC) consists of highly concentrated nutritional and bioactive components after parturition. BC supplements are promoted for prevention and management of neurological disorders (dementia, cognition, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease), cardiovascular diseases, immunity-related and allergy problems, skin disorders, inflamm...

A chemometric study was conducted to know the geographical region-wise changes in the colostrum physicochemical and immunological properties of recently registered “Himachali Pahari” cow breed in India. The colostrum samples were collected within 72 hours of parturition from two zones (high and low altitudes) comprising of four districts each and h...

The massive research interest in whey has strengthened its position among coagulated milk products. Previously conducted reviews demonstrate that whey-derived functional foods provide a cascade of beneficial applications that promote health and wellbeing, and in managing numerous chronic diseases. To improve the understanding about how whey protein...

Colostrum samples of recently registered cow breed “Himachali Pahari” were assorted from high altitude zone (901-2200 meters). Prepared bovine colostrum whey powder (BCWP) was analysed for chemical composition, amino acids, minerals, surface morphology (SEM-EDS), FTIR and dielectric properties. Results showed that freeze-dried BCWP contained a cons...

Wheatgrass is a valuable source of nutrients and phytochemicals with therapeutic properties. However, its shorter life span makes it unavailable for use. So, storage-stable products must be developed through processing in order to enhance its availability. Drying is a very important part of the processing of wheatgrass. Thus, in this study, the eff...

Resveratrol (RSV) has been linked to a wide range of biological activities, particularly antioxidant, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and anti-carcinogenic characteristics. However, because of limitations such as chemical deterioration happen during storage (UV light and oxygen), low aqueous solubility, and oral bioavailability, this study used a...

This current research set out to characterize Halari donkey milk by investigating its nutritional constituents, including its proximate analysis, water activity, titratable acidity, energy, and microbiological analysis. A comprehensive profiling of vitamins, minerals, and amino acids was also carried out. It was found that the composition of Halari...

Good manufacturing practices are the fundamental operating and environmental conditions that must be met to produce safe foods. GMP coordinates all sections of the facility to ensure food safety. The safety of the products being manufactured is critical at every stage of production including manufacturers, product processing, packaging, storage, an...

As a dairy product, yogurt delivers nourishing milk components through the beneficial microbial fermentation process, improved by bioavailability and bioaccessibility - an exclusive combined food asset. In recent decades, there has been considerable attention to yogurt product development particularly in areas like influence by antioxidant-rich fru...

Plant-based remedies hold a special place despite the wide availability of synthetic pharmaceuticals due to their potent benefits and fewer side effects. Antibiotics are used to cure bacterial diseases and improve health conditions in animals; however, the increased misuse of antibiotics is posing a serious threat to animal health due to the develo...

Background In addition to providing individualized, specific, and ample nutritional compounds, donkey milk (DM) offers immunological modulation during health and disease. Recently, DM has attracted major interest in preparing infant formulas due to its similarity to human milk in terms of high protein and lactose content and low-fat concentration....

Bioactive compounds are secondary metabolites synthesized by plants for maintaining homeostasis; however, they also modulate metabolic processes and demonstrate valuable effects in the human body. e fig was cherished as food and for its pharmaceutical properties. e presence of a wide range of biologically active compounds such as carotenoids, flavo...

Based on the availability of many nutrients, Moringa oleifera tree leaves have been widely employed as nutrients and nutraceuticals in recent years. The leaves contain a small amount of anti‐ nutritional factors and are abundant in innumerable bioactive compounds. Recently, in several in vivo and in vitro investigations, moringa leaves’ bioactive c...

Liquorice (or “licorice”) is a herb with a long and illustrious past. Liquorice extracts and their key ingredient, glycyrrhizin, are commonly used in several foods, cigarettes, tobacco, and medicines. As a consequence, liquorice and glycyrrhizin are widely used with an average per day consumption of 0.027–3.6 mg glycyrrhizin/kg. The majority of nat...

Bovine colostrum (BC) is the initial mammary secretion after parturition, which is nature's bountiful source consisting of nutritional and bioactive components present in a highly concentrated low-volume format. All mammalian newborns require colostrum to enhance physiological processes such as lifelong immunity, gastrointestinal development, and r...

The beet-root (Beta vulgaris) and whey powder together, can potentially use as a multifunctional ingredient in the manufacturing of the ‘‘Popsicles’’, due to their biochemical composition that can enhance the concentration of bioactive compounds. In the present study, beet-root juice concentrates were prepared at different time/temperature treatmen...

The physicochemical, antioxidant, and polyphenolic attributes of microencapsulated freeze‐dried kinnow peel extract powder using maltodextrin as wall material were investigated. The total phenolic, flavonoid, and antioxidant content of fresh peel extract were 24.51 mg GAE/g, 9.12 mg Quercetin/g, and 81.53% scavenging activity, respectively. The mal...

In recent years, antibiotic-resistant microbes have become a serious concern which needs proper attention either to solve the problem or to find out the solution to treat it. In this study, antibiotic resistant strains of Pseudomonas, Enterococcus, and Escherichia coli (E. coli) were used to assess the antimicrobial potential of Kigelia pinnata fru...

Mushrooms are well-known functional foods due to the presence of a huge quantity of nutraceutical components. These are well recognized for their nutritional importance such as high protein, low fat, and low energy contents. These are rich in minerals such as iron, phosphorus, as well as in vitamins like riboflavin, thiamine, ergosterol, niacin, an...

Milk proteins have been studied extensively for several years. In recent decades, technological breakthroughs have allowed us to gain a better grasp of this complicated protein system. Proteomics and related developments make it possible to learn more about milk proteins. Milk proteins can be detected, identified, and characterized using proteomics...

The present study was focused to isolate lactic acid bacteria (LAB) from traditional fermented leftover dough 'maleda' Himachal Pradesh (India) to evaluate the probiotic potential. The assortment of samples was done from the different areas of the state. From the samples, 13 positive isolates showed the typical appearance of LAB. The screening of i...

Abstract The present study aimed to optimize and develop ready-to-eat rice-based functional breakfast food using response surface methodology. The levels of ingredients viz. skim milk powder, guar gum, and ferrous sulfate were pre-optimized and remained constant, whereas jaggery and dark chocolate were taken as independent variables. The optimum le...

High precision and rapid detection of pesticides are one of the most imperative requirements today to overcome environmental and food safety problems. Therefore, here, in this study, we proposed a simple colorimetric sensor for the visual determination of imidacloprid (IMD) using asparagine (Asp)-modified AuNPs. The synthesized Asp-AuNPs were chara...

In the past decade, functional foods gain more acceptance and popularity among all age group due to the fact that these foods offer a variety of health benefits towards human health and disease beyond basic nutrition. The functional food (conventional and modified) can be expressed as enriched, fortified and whole foods which are enhanced by the in...

In this study, nutritional rich multi-grain cookies using rice bran powder has been prepared. The multi-grain flour blend including wheat, pearl millet, corn flour was supplemented with different levels of rice bran (10,20,30%) powder and used for the preparation of cookies. The physical, nutritional and sensory characteristics of prepared multi-gr...

ABSTRACT: Bovine colostrum (BC) consists of highly concentrated nutritional and bioactive components after parturition. BC supplements are promoted for prevention and management of neurological disorders (dementia, cognition, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease), cardiovascular diseases, immunity-related and allergy problems, skin disorder...

probiotics

This review summarises the progress that has been made in silver nanoparticles (NPs) based colorimetric quantification of toxic metal ions in the water and environmental samples. Due to the anthro-pogenic activities, contamination of metallic ions in the ecosystem rapidly increased, inflicting serious illness to human and aquatic life. Consequently...

COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the whole world population to the core. Due to dynamically spreading of this virus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) give the safety measures (travel and gathering restrictions, broader closing) to wins outbreak. This pandemic disrupts routine lifestyle of human beings as well as processing, manufacturing sector. Foo...

Bauhinia variegata is deciduous tree, native to tropical and temperate regions. It is small to medium sized tree, brownish gray in color. The parts of B. variegata, that is, flowers, stem, bark, root, and seeds are well known for their medicinal and therapeutic values. Many researches claim that the plant exhibits antitumorous heapatoprotective, an...

Colostrum (Immune milk) is secreted by mammals from the mammary glands after parturition (0-72 hours) which is significantly rich in nutrients (proteins, fats, amino acid, vitamins, minerals) and non-nutrients (biologically active compounds) excluding lactose, other compounds found to be high immediately after calving and start decreasing as time i...

In recent years, food adulteration has become a major problem worldwide. Food adulteration is usually defined as any substance that can be used to make food unsafe or non-standard. Adulterated food may be toxic and it could deprive the essential nutrients for proper growth and development of the body. Consumption of adulterated food has caused seri...

Pesticides are generally used to control and prevent agricultural pests. Excessive and sporadic use of pesticides poses a serious threat to human and livestock life. Therefore, to safeguard the people’s health simple and sensible approaches for the determination of residual pesticides in food items are desperately required. The nanotechnology-based...

The main objective of the present study was to produce crispy deep-fried chips from Kamal Kakadi plant with acceptable organoleptic qualities. Kamal Kakadi was a small aquatic herb, which are widely distributed in China, India, Japan and in some parts of South-East Asia. Kamal Kakadi encompasses rich amount of polyphenolic compounds, which exhibit...

Copper nanostructures synthesis has been gaining attention now-a-days due to their cost effectiveness and easy availability. However, factors such as agglomeration and rapid oxidation of copper nanoparticles have made the synthesis process very difficult. In this present work we synthesizedfluorescent copper nanocluster by using L-ascorbic acid as...

Advancement in Functional Food Ingredients - Shortcut

Oat (Avena sativa L.) is an underutilized cereal and is considered as a rich source of protein, minerals, lipids, β-glucan and other phytochemicals. It has an immense scope for its application in preparation of various nutraceutical and functional foods. Oat flour was incorporated with wheat flour at different concentrations for preparation of brea...

The CLT value (min: sec) for pure cow ghee ranged from 2:13 to 2:53 with an average of 2:32, while that for pure buffalo ghee ranged from 2:22 to 3:08 with an average of 2:43. The addition of palm olein could not be detected at any of the level studied, other than at 15 percent level in case of cow ghee. On the other side, sheep body fat added sepa...

The CLT value (min: sec) for pure cow ghee ranged from 2:13 to 2:53 with an average of 2:32, while that for pure buffalo ghee ranged from 2:22 to 3:08 with an average of 2:43. The addition of palm olein could not be detected at any of the level studied, other than at 15 percent level in case of cow ghee. On the other side, sheep body fat added sepa...

Medicinal plants have been a major source of therapeutic agents to cure human diseases, since ancient time. Terminalia arjunais one kind of widely used medicinal plant used in various indigenous system of medicine like Ayurveda, Sidda and Unani. This review has been conducted to pile up phytochemical, pharmacological information and application in...

Paneer is heat and acid coagulated milk product. It has great value in diet with respect to its food and nutrition. An attempt was made to evaluate the physico-chemical quality of paneer samples preserved with formalin under vacuum packaging in two type of high barrier packaging pouches. So that it will beneficial to FSO to preserve marketed paneer...

Stress is experienced as a part of daily lives by many people. It exerts great impact on our physical and mental health. Negative mood and chronic stress are main causes for anxiety, depression, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Selection of foods in stress and mood related diseases can involve both physiological and psychological influences. T...

Colostrum is the first fluid yielded from the mammary glands of mammals after parturition and is intended for ingestion by the newborn during the first hours of life. It is a complex biological fluid, contains immune and growth factors which helps in the development of immunity in the newborn. It contains Immunoglobulin’s that act as natural anti-m...

Probiotics are defined as “live microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host”. Probiotic microorganisms are generally lactic acid bacteria (LAB) including Lactobacillus acidophilus, L. delbrueckii ssp. bulgaricus, L. casei, L. plantarum, L. rhamnosus etc. However, other bacterial species such as Ba...

New technologies have revolutionized food processing sector over the past few decades. Most recent among these is “Food Nanotechnology”, an area of emerging interest and new possibilities for the food industry. It has large scope in food processing, preservation, packaging and development of functional foods. This technology can be used for improve...

Goat is known as poor man’s animal. The fat globules are smaller in goat milk, which makes it easily digestible. Polyunsaturated fatty acids in goat milk fat, is mainly responsible for anticancerous behavior of goat milk. Although protein is somewhat low in goat milk than cow milk, the digestibility of goat milk protein is higher compared to cow mi...

Black grape (Vitis vinifera) peel possesses a huge amount of nutraceuticals. In the present study, dried grape peel extract (GPE), milk fat and powdered sugar levels in stirred yogurt were optimized with the help of response surface methodology involving central composite rotatable design of three independent variables. Four important parameters, t...

This study was carried out to check the preserving effectiveness of methyl paraben and propyl paraben in comparison with formalin in milk for analytical purpose. The pooled raw cow milk were collected from the institute cattle yard and the milk samples were preserved with methyl paraben at conc. 0.1 % , propyl paraben 0.1 % and formalin 0.4% and it...

The objective of present study was to determine the effect of different time temperature treatment on microbial count, IgG concentration and viscosity of goat colostrum. Aliquots were prepared from pooled goat colostrum samples collected during first three days and were subjected to three different heat (60, 63 & 65°C) treatments for 60 min. Sample...

The objective of the present investigation was to compare the chemical and immunological quality of crossbreed goats, Sannen x Beetal and Alpine x Beetal and to study the effect of frequency of milking. Fifteen Sannen x Beetal and Alpine x Beetal dairy goats were selected for the study and colostrum samples were collected at an interval of 12 h fro...