Applied Using Mango Seed Kernel In Food Products

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2.4 Applied using mango seed kernel in food products
The mango seed kernel is high nutrition because it is contained protein, fat, starch and fiber. The local and poor people in India and Africa consume this seed instead of starch food by roast or boil since the ancient times and some Indian food use the mango seed kernel as ingredients, such as Chapati and Supari (Prani, 2552).
In some places, the starch is made from the mango seed kernel. This starch has resistance starch in very high amount (75-80%). Therefore, consuming this starch will low glycemic index.
The components of this starch are amylose 40% and amylopectin 61%. The quality of this starch, such as dissolve performance, viscosity and molding is similar to other starch from grain, …show more content…

The product of these factories is shortening which is ingredient for making bread, crisp bread and cake. It is contained both fatty acid and long chain acid, such as palmitic acid and steric acid. However, it has drawback from hydrogenation process. This process can make high amount of trans fatty acid around …show more content…

It can reduce the quantity of HDL fat. In contrast, the quantity of LDL fat is increase. Consuming of trans fatty acid in 4% of total calories will increase this negative fat in blood.
Due to this flaw, mango seed oil that has high steric acid is the possible way to make free trans fatty acid shortening.
The important process of shortening by using mango seed oil is extraction of steric acid in solvent. This free trans fatty acid composition can able to mixture in shortening processes more than 55%. However, this shortening will have higher cost than the shortening that make from hydrogenation. The benefit of this shortening are safety and healthy for the consumer. (Reddy SY, 2001)
The taste and food safety are the fact that need to consider for consuming of mango seed. Normally, the mango seed kernel is sourness because tannin in this seed. However, tannin component is easily to dissolve in water or steaming. These methods can reduce the amount of tannin around 48%. In addition, the consuming of the mango seed kernel is very safety because human consume this food since ancient times. Moreover, science research shows the normal weight people (70 kilogram) can consume the mango seed kernel 400 grams or mango seed starch 800 grams without

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