A PROCESS FOR PREPARING NUTRIENT FORTIFIED AYURVEDIC SWEETS LIKE SANDESH AND ROSOGOLLA CONTAINING AT LEAST ONE HERB

摘要

Conventional sweetmeats used mainly casein and sugar as their principal ingredients, occasionally adding colouring and flavouring agents. Some of the synthetic colouring agents have been found to be deleterious to human health, and people are increasingly growing apathetic to the intake of sweet items for fear of weight gain, rise in blood sugar and cholesterol level, and so on. The present invention provides a process for preparing heald-food items in the form of common sandesh and rasogolla by incorporating natural anti-oxidants and nutrients which have been found to overcome many of the previous shortcomings. On the contrary, they are cardiac-friendly and raises HDL-level in people. The process resides in selecting, processing and preparing extracts, pastes or granules from plants, herbs, plant products or parts thereof to obtain the active ingredients, fortifying them with microhutrients and/or bioactive materials, preparing a premix of casein, chhana, soya-protein or whey-protein with the fortified active ingredients, partially drying in pre-mix, forming desired sweets from the fortified pre-mix by standard procedures.