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Effect of Extrusion Process Parameters on Physical, Functional and Textural Properties of Broken Rice-Foxtail Millet-Maize based Extrudates

Volume : 101
Issue: Apr-jun
Pages: 183 - 188
Published: April 30, 2023
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Abstract


The effect of extrusion on the physical, functional and textural properties of broken rice extrudates blended with foxtail millet and maize flours of various formulations (108010, 206020, 304030, 106030 and 306010) on density, true density, porosity, expansion ratio, water absorption index (WAI), water solubility index (WSI), solubility index, swelling power, colour values, hardness and fracturability by varying the parameters of feed moisture content, screw speed and barrel temperature were investigated. The density of blends ranged from 0.09 to 0.57 g/cm3, expansion ratio (1.47-2.58), true density (40.08-559.48 kg/m3), porosity (22.83-38.18 per cent), WAI (3.52-7.81g/g), WSI (0.0-6.6 per cent), swelling power (5.03-8.18 g/g) and hardness (1.91-10.44 N). It wasobserved that the increase in feed moisture content resulted in extrudates with a lower expansion ratio and WAI, higher density, WSI and hardness. Among the various combinations investigated the blend with broken rice (30), foxtail millet (60) and maize (10) yielded good sensory results. The results obtained from the experiments were significantly different at (P≤0.01) all combinations.

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183 - 188
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Extrusion broken rice functional physical properties
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