Sabyasachi Mishra

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• PhD
• Professor at National Institute of Technology Rourkela

The food and dairy processing sector has been indispensable in consistently providing safe, affordable, and nutritious food to humans for many decades. This sector is set for remarkable growth, in the future, driven by various factors such as the rapid increase in population, evolving dietary preferences, increasing health awareness, rising incomes...

Starch has many applications in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Finger millet is an underutilized cereal crop and a potentially viable source of starch. The conventional methods of starch isolation result in contamination and starch degradation. Developing a better process with improved starch quality is essential. Ultrasound-assisted isola...

Starch is a versatile biomaterial with a wide range of applications across various industrial sectors. Therefore, starch isolation methods play a crucial role in fulfilling the demand for high‐quality starch required for different applications. Waxy maize starch is the most used starch for different food applications. It is isolated using an alkali...

Kodo millet is of the Poaceae family that thrives well under abiotic stress and scanty rainfall and possesses the goodness of iron and a low glycemic index. Notably, its low amylose content hinders the manufacturing of breakfast cereals due to its meager expansion. A purely chemical-free modification method of dry-heat treatment (DHT) on hulled Kod...

Kodo millet, possesses the goodness of iron and low glycemic index, notably, its starch has inadequate application owing to retrogradation and low amylose content. Dry‐roasting seems worthy as an inexpensive pretreatment process to preserve desirable textural characteristics of whole cereal grains with peculiarity of moisture levels below 20% for a...

Spray drying process was optimized for the development of probiotic finger millet milk powder. The independent parameters considered were inlet air temperature, maltodextrin content, and feed rate depending upon the preliminary trials. The major dependent quality parameters considered in the current work were moisture content, water activity, powde...

Consumers have been more inclined towards functional food due to various health issues. Non‐dairy‐based probiotic milk could be the potential alternative to fulfill consumer demand. Spray drying of functional health drinks could enhance the shelf life and reduce the transportation cost of developed food powder. The current study was focused on the...

Cashew apple juice is one of the highly nutritious and perishable fruit juice. In this study, the shelf life extension of pre-treated cashew apple juice was undertaken using a non-thermal ultrafiltration technology. A total of 16 experiments were carried out at four different molecular weight cut-offs (5 kDa, 10 kDa, 30 kDa, and 50 kDa) and transme...

Consumer interest in probiotics is significantly growing due to their positive impact on their health. Dairy products are common and most preferred probiotics "delivery vehicle" in the food industry. However, dairy products are associated with increased risk to people, with lactose intolerance, galactosemia, allergy to milk proteins, and high chole...

Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is adamant in developing countries especially affecting pregnant women and children. Popular maize hybrid (CO6) contains higher b-carotene concentration (923 lg/100 g), is considered one of the prominent and cheapest sources of provitamin A for humans, to alleviate VAD. The present research explored an adequate combinatio...

The process parameters such as rotational speed, time, membrane pore size and transmembrane pressure were chosen for centrifugation and microfiltration, respectively. The artificial neural network‐genetic algorithm technique was followed to achieve the optimized process parameters for centrifugation (7532 rpm rotational speed and 52.6 min time). Li...

Finger millet (Eleusine Coracana) is rich in nutrients and minerals. The iron and calcium contents are comparatively higher than other cereal crops. Finger millet also has some antinutrients such as tannins and phytates, that needs to be removed for maximum health benefits. Traditionally, these antinutrients are removed by the hydration process. Th...

The present research was done for the selected minor millets viz. barnyard (Echinola esculenta), Kodo (Paspalum scrobiculatum), and little millets (Panicum sumatrense). The physical and engineering properties were evaluated at a moisture content of 10-11%, (dry basis) for whole and hulled millets. Significant improvement in the physical properties...

Ripe Palm (Borassus flabellifer) juice contains high sugars that make it difficult to store for a longer period, which limits its use for spray drying. The present work explores the feasibility and optimization of spray drying to make powder from enzymatically extracted ripe palm juice using maltodextrin and gum Arabic as wall materials. Various pa...

Kendu is a highly nutritious seasonal fruit widely grown in India. It is a rich source of antioxidants, β-carotene, and phenols. Due to the lack of national recognition, this fruit remains underutilized. A significant portion of the fruit is lost due to its short shelf life and lack of processing technology. In the present work, the development and...

Introduction – Cashew apple is an underutilised tropical fruit rich in bioactive compounds, mainly polyphenols and ascorbic acid. Due to its high perishability, valorisation is necessary to make the fruit available to the consumers to benefit its nutritional qualities. High-temperature extraction of juice reduces the nutritional quality and provide...

The interest in nondairy-based probiotic foods has significantly increased due to lactose intolerance, casein allergy, and associated cholesterol risks. Fruit-based products could be an excellent alternative option. In the present work, Sohiong (Prunus nepalensis) juice has been used for the development of a possible probiotic product. Sohiong juic...

Kendu (Diospyros melanoxylon Roxb.), an underutilized seasonal fruit of India, is a rich source of many medicinal and nutritional properties. However, due to lack of proper postharvest practices, the fruit remains unutilized. The present work is aimed at the optimization of enzyme assisted juice extraction process based on selected quality characte...

Kendu (Diospyros melanoxylon Roxb.) is an underutilized nutritious fruit found in most of the Asian countries. The proper design and development of a grading system would help in improving the utilization of the fruit. Mass-based grading is more economical than the size-based grading of fruits. The present study determines the best-suited models fo...

The main objective of inducted research was to test mechanical properties of two myrobalan fruits Termi-nalia bellerica and Terminalia chebula based on variation in the moisture content and the loading position of the fruit and its seed along the longitudinal, intermediate and transverse axes. The mechanical properties were tested in terms of defor...

In this study, pectinase-assisted extraction of cashew apple juice was modeled and optimized using a multi-layer artificial neural network (ANN) coupled with genetic algorithm (GA). The effect of incubation time, incubation temperature, and enzyme concentration on different responses such as yield, turbidity, ascorbic acid content, polyphenol conte...

The study was conducted on tannase‐assisted extraction of cashew apple juice at different combinations of tannase concentration (0.01–0.1% wt/wt), incubation time (20–120 min), and incubation temperature (30–50°C) for the maximum reduction of tannin from the juice. The modeling and optimization of process parameters were performed using response su...

The present research was inducted to assess the physical properties of Terminalia bellerica fruit which is commonly known as belleric myrobalan. The research includes dimensional properties, gravimetric properties, and frictional properties of the T. bellerica. These properties form an important base for the designing of machine or equipment; those...

The present study deals with the engineering properties of three Indian kiwi cultivars. These engineering properties will facilitate the farmers, and industry personals involve in handling, packaging and transportation of fresh harvested fruit. The complete information on physical, mechanical, thermal and biochemical properties of three Indian kiwi...

Non-dairy based probiotic foods have gained consumer interest due to lactose intolerance, casein allergy, and cholesterol associated risks with consumption of dairy-based products. Probiotic fruit juice powder can be a suitable alternative for dairy-based probiotic powders. Enzymatically extracted Sohiong juice was fermented with Lactobacillus plan...

Cashew apple fruit (Anacardium occidentale L.) is an under‐valued and under‐utilized by‐product of the nut‐processing units in India. Despite its huge production and nutritive values, utilization of this fruit is very limited because of certain factors like lack of knowledge on its nutritional importance, astringency, perishability, and poor proces...

The review mainly focused on ready-to-eat (RTE) fresh-cut fruits and vegetable (F&V) which are consumed raw or processed. In recent years, there has been growing evidence of consumption of minimally processed fruits and vegetable for the prevention of many chronic diseases. Some chemicals like chlorine, calcium chloride, etc., are used for sanitisa...

Dairy-based probiotic drinks are widely available for consumers. However, these drinks are often attributed to lactose and casein intolerance, and associated cholesterol risks. This calls for the development of non-dairy based probiotic drinks. Fruit based products can be a potential alternative option. In the present work, Sohiong (Prunus nepalens...

Dairy-based probiotic drinks are widely available for consumers. However, these drinks are often attributed to lactose and casein intolerance, and associated cholesterol risks. This calls for the development of non-dairy based probiotic drinks. Fruit based products can be a potential alternative option. In the present work, Sohiong (Prunus nepalens...

The research was inducted to investigate the physical properties and to determine the mass model for Terminalia chebula fruits depending on its dimensional attributes. The investigation revealed that principle dimensions of the whole fruit T. chebula viz. average longitudinal axis (length), intermediate axis (width), and transverse axis (thickness)...

A microwave assisted ultraviolet light sterilization system (MWUV) was developed to study the synergistic effect in the sterilization of orange juice. This study used Response surface methodology (RSM) based on Box-Behnken design to get the optimum sterilization condition of MWUV and to analyse its effect on viable bacterial count and biochemical p...

Palm is a seasonal fruit and has high nutritional and medicinal values. The palm juice is popular for its taste and nutritive value. When ripe, the pulp becomes fibrous making the manual and mechanical juice extraction difficult. Due to this, the palm juice is underutilized. The present work explored enzymatic-assisted extraction of Palm juice. Pec...

Indian blackberry (Syzygium cumini) is an excellent source of antioxidants and anthocyanins. The fruit juice can be concentrated by membrane filtration for use as nutritional supplements. The juice was extracted and clarified by ultrafiltration (50 kDa) and concentrated by nano-filtration (300 Da). Physicochemical properties of permeate and retenta...

Sohiong (Prunus nepalensis) fruit is an underutilized fruit of Northeastern part of India and is known as a rich source of micronutrients, polyphenols, and anthocyanin. The synergistic effect of ultrasound and enzymatic treatment on extraction of Sohiong fruit juice was investigated for maximum juice yield. The process variables in juice extraction...

Changes in physicochemical properties of fresh cut tender jackfruit during storage is depend on its colour. Colorimeter measurements are best for the samples with homogeneous colour. However, for samples with non-homogenous colors or large sizes (like fruits and vegetables), the colorimeters are inappropriate and inaccurate. The aim for this study...

Sohiong (Prunus nepalensis L.) is an underutilised fruit from north-eastern part of India. It is reported to be a good source of dietary bioactive compounds. Even though it is very much popular as a nutritious fruit among the local tribes, there is no scientific information available on the physicochemical characterisation and value-addition of the...

Madhuca longifolia, commonly known as mahua, is an important crop due to its industrial uses and applications of its flower, fruit and seed. The characterisation of mahua seeds is essential for its further processing as well as for the design of post-harvest equipment. Therefore, the aim of the study was to characterise the mahua seed in terms of i...

A microwave-assisted ultraviolet sterilization system was developed to study the synergistic effect in the sterilization of milk. Electrodeless lamps emitting ultraviolet radiation inside the microwave chamber gave a synergistic effect without challenging food safety standards. This study compared the results of both microwave and microwave assiste...

This research was conducted on two varieties of tender jackfruit [hard (HV) and soft variety (SV)]. The tender jackfruit was divided into four stages (i.e. Stage 1, 2, 3 and 4) and their physical, mechanical, chemical and textural properties were determined for both the varieties. Physical properties like weight, length, diameter, geometric mean an...

Shorea robusta (Sal) is mainly harvested and processed for its seed oil, which has diverse application in commercial food and non-food based industries. Before extraction of its oil, seeds undergo into various post-harvest unit operations. Physical and mechanical properties play an important role in the handling and other processing activity. In th...

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus L.) in its tender form is consumed as a vegetable and popular for its flavour, colour and meat like texture. In south Asian countries like Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Indonesia the tender jackfruit market has a huge market potential. But, due to less edible portion per fruit (45-55% of whole fruit), the marke...

Minor forest products (MFPs) are vital source of livelihood for the tribals living in and around forest. MFPs are important among the tribals living in the forest, especially as a source of food. Kendu (Diospyros melanoxylon Roxb.) is one such MFP which has never been explored to its full potential. The plant is plentily grown in India as a source...

Kendu (Diospyros melanoxylon Roxb.) is considered to be a minor forest produce (MFP) in India. The Kendu plant is grown in plenty all over the eastern parts of India for commercialization of its leaves for making bidi, a traditional cigarette. However, most of the harvest goes waste as the fruit has never been explored for its nutritional aspects....

Freshly harvested Docynia indica fruits were surface cleansed with ultrasonic treatment at different amplitudes. Partly matured fruits were selected for all the experimental studies. The process variables i.e. ultrasonic amplitude, treatment time and temperature selected were optimized using response surface methodology (RSM) by three factor three...

Kendu (Diospyros melanoxylon Roxb.) is a minor forest produce commercially grown in India for its leaves for traditional cigarette‐making. Though the fruit has high nutritive value, it is not used for diet purpose. This may be due to the difficulty in extracting the pulp. To address this issue, a brush type pulping machine was developed for Kendu....

Jamun is a subtropical minor fruit having many medicinal values. It has a distinguish flavor and color. The fruit pulp was depectinized with enzyme at low temperature and the obtained juice was used for clarification process. A comparison between physicochemical properties and operating parameters were performed between centrifuged and microfiltere...

Jamun (Syzygium cuminii) is an important minor fruits in India. Minor fruits are good source of nutrition and pharmaceuticals properties. Among all minor fruits Jamun is highly perishable but nutritious. It is mainly used for diabetes patients and in the pharmaceuticals industries. It is a good source of anthocyanin, effective against the analgesic...

In the present study effects of pre-treatments such as blanching with hot water and microwave, ethyl oleate dipping, and combinations of these treatments on drying characteristics of the bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) at various temperature were studied. The overall drying time was reduced significantly in the ethyl oleate treated and microw...

Jamun (Syzygium cuminii L.) is one of the important indigenous minor fruit with high medicinal value. The jamun cultivation is unorganized and there is huge loss of this fruit every year. The perishable nature of the fruit makes its postharvest management further difficult. Due to the strong cell wall structure of pectin-protein bonds and hard seed...

Jamun fruit comprises of seed and thick pulp. The pectin–protein bond of the thick pulp creates difficulty in making juice. Clear Jamun juice is not available in the market, so there is a need for extraction of juice with maximum yield. The goal of this research is to obtain high yield of clarified juice with the help of Pectinase (Aspergillus acul...

Post harvest processing of Amla or Indian gooseberry (Emblica officinalis Gaertn.) has an essential need. It is one of the important non-traditional healthiest fruit among all fruits, originated in India. India ranks first in the world in area and production of this crop. Several developments have been made for the post harvest treatment of this fr...

Sal (Shorea robusta) seed is a nontimber forest product, mainly processed for its oil. This oil is used in various food and nonfood industries. Prior to extraction of oil, sal seeds are manually broken to obtain sal kernel. This traditional manual de‐shelling process is very tedious, time consuming and unhygienic. Hence, in this research, a sal see...

Physical, mechanical, and chemical properties of Shorea robusta seed with wing, seed without wing, and kernel were investigated in the present work. The physico-chemical composition of sal oil was also analyzed. The physico-mechanical properties and proximate composition of seed with wing, seed without wing, and kernel at three moisture contents of...

Extracting juice from Jamun is difficult. The fruit consists a seed inside and cell wall consists of high amount of pectin‐protein bond which makes the pulp thicker. The Box‐Behnken design is a type of response surface design which is as useful as the central composite designs but avoiding treatment combinations that are in extreme. The objective o...

Bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) is a rich source of dietary protein and contains omega-3 fatty acid in its oil.It is high-value oil in India as well as in the world market due to its medicinal properties. The oil is generally extracted using solvent extraction method from the kernels. Physico-chemical properties of the kernel were determined at...

The traditional or commercial fruit juice method involves heat treatment which is responsible for nutritional loss, vitamin loss, ‘cooked flavour’ and loss of color and aroma. Overall qualities of the juice deteriorate. Moreover these technologies are labour and time consuming methods. Whereas membrane filtration method {Ultrafiltration (UF), Micro...

Shorea Robusta (Sal) belongs to the family of Dipterocarpaceae. Sal has an important role in the economics of central states of India (i.e. Orissa, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh). These states cover about 45 % of forest area. Sal is a deciduous tree that reaches up to 50 m height. Sal is famous for its seed and oil. Sal fruit pulp is edible; it cont...

Fruits, when harvested have high moisture content and higher water activity that provides suitable ground for the growth of microorganisms. In addition, the biochemical and metabolic processes do not cease; though the fruit have left their parent plants. The processes such as respiration, senescence, and conversion of starch etc. contribute to the...

Banana has a special place in the daily diet of millions of people around the world for sustenance and nutrient enrichment. Some of the popular food uses of banana are chips, raw ripened fruit, cooked green banana, fermented and unfermented beverages, juice, puree, dried flour for bakery and infant formula food. Banana is also used as a starch sour...

Experiments were conducted to determine the effects of moisture content, cooking temperature, and cooking time on the yield of oil mechanically expressed from Jatropha seed using a screw press expeller. A maximum oil recovery of 73.14% was obtained when Jatropha seeds were conditioned to a dry basis (db) moisture level of 9.69% and cooked at 110 de...

Drying and dehydration techniques have constantly been evolving since ancienttime; from sun drying to solar drying, from convective air drying to impingement drying.The heating medium has changed from sunlight to dielectric and electromagneticradiation, from hot air to jet impingement, from steam to superheated steam etc. Dryingessentially is a sim...

Naphthenic acids (NAs) are concentrated in oil sand process water (OSPW) as a result of caustic oil sands extraction processes. There is considerable interest in methods for treatment of NAs in OSPW. Earlier work has shown that the combination of ultraviolet (UV) and microwave treatments in the laboratory was effective in reducing the concentration...

Naphthenic acids (NAs) are natural constituents of bitumen and crude oil. These compounds are concentrated as part of the oil sands process water (OSPW) during petroleum refining and separation from oil sands. NAs are considered among the major water contaminants in OSPW due to their toxicity and environmental recalcitrance. A laboratory scale micr...

Banana is one of the most appreciated fruit all over the world because of its multipurpose use as food. Lack of suitable post harvest management practices may lead to a huge economic loss for the banana producing regions. Different postharvest management practices are in use to enhance its shelf life by delaying the ripening, reducing respiration r...

Banana serves as an ideal and low cost food source for developing countries where most of the population rely mostly on bananas for food. Banana plant parts are useful as insecticide, antioxidant, colour absorber, in preparation of various functional foods, wine, alcohol, biogas, cattle feed etc. This review discusses usefulness of banana fruits, p...

Naphthenic acids (NAs) are soluble in water and are concentrated in oil sand process water (OSPW) as a re-sult of caustic oil sands extraction processes. Significant environmental and regulatory attention has been focused on the naphthenic acids. A laboratory scale photocatalysis system was developed using UV 254 flo-rescent lamps. Experiments were...

Banana serves as an ideal and low cost food source for developing countries where most of the population rely mostly on bananas for food. Banana plant parts are useful as insecticide, antioxidant, colour absorber, preparation of various functional foods, wine, alcohol, biogas, cattle feed etc. In this review article, usefulness of banana fruits, pe...

Purpose of review: This article reviews some of the versatile postharvest uses of plantains and other components of plantain plants.Findings: Plantain belongs to the Musacace family and is cultivated in over 120 countries. Many African, Asian and Latin American countries depend primarily on the plantain plant for sustainability. Mature plantains ar...

Naphthenic acid (NA) is predominantly a mono-carboxylic acid obtained as a by-product of petroleum refining with variable composition and ingredients. It is reported that water affected by processes in the petroleum industries generally contains 40-120 mg IL of naphthenic acid which is considered to be in the range of toxicity to human consumption...

Drying with moisture reduction provides extended shelf life to fresh fruits and vegetables. Drying by conventional dryers at higher temperature usually results in overall quality loss due to surface drying and is also energy intensive. Use of microwave has been reported for better bulk drying of sensitive biomaterials. Advanced research suggested t...

Naphthenic acid (NA) is predominantly a mono-carboxylic acid obtained as a by-product of petroleum refi ning with variable composition and ingredients. Naphthenic acids are quite soluble in water and this water affected by processes in the petroleum industries generally contains naphthenic acid which is considered to be in the range of toxicity to...