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Asian Journal of Biotechnology

Year: 2020 | Volume: 12 | Issue: 1 | Page No.: 47-55
DOI: 10.3923/ajbkr.2020.47.55
Dates Utilization to Process Some New Dietary Products (Marshmallow and Sheets) and Their Acceptability Evaluation
Hamdy A. Shaaban , Nesreen M. El-Said Ali and Ashraf I. Nagib

Abstract: Background and Objective: Date fruits are an imperative crop, especially cultivated in the hot-arid regions of the world having extraordinary nutritional and therapeutic value. Also, marshmallow is a confection of foam-like structure and demand for it is constantly growing on the world market. This study is performed to investigate the possibility of producing new dietary products called dates marshmallow and sheets with a new technology. Materials and Methods: Mixing the juice of dates with fruit juice such as golden berry and Tamarindus indica with ratio 50% led to reduce the content of sucrose and total sugars. Results: Total phenolic compounds for dates, 50%; Tamarindus indica, 50% were the highest one. Flavonoids were the highest value in samples dates (100%) followed by the other. It noticed that, carotenoids recorded the highest content in all samples. Objective testing color measurements, all treatments including both of controls were observed less in yellowness (***b) value. On the other hand, fibers, total acidity and vitamin C were close and almost compatible with the control. It could be clearly observed that, treatment of date sheets product (zero time) were more in compared with control by increasing time of storage. Conclusion: Second degree types of dates are proper, successful, economic and applicable to produce as a new product marshmallows as well as it can be made in sheets form by heat concentrated drying which it gave an added value for dates that was very well for consumer palatability in general by sensory evaluation.

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Hamdy A. Shaaban, Nesreen M. El-Said Ali and Ashraf I. Nagib, 2020. Dates Utilization to Process Some New Dietary Products (Marshmallow and Sheets) and Their Acceptability Evaluation. Asian Journal of Biotechnology, 12: 47-55.

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