PRODUCTION OF PUMPKIN POWDER AND IT'S UTILIZATION IN BAKERY PRODUCTS DEVELOPMENT: A REVIEW

Sudipta Das, Soumitra Banerjee

Abstract: Pumpkin covers a wide number of species of the family Cucurbitaceae, most of them with actual or potential economic value. Dehydration of pumpkin for producing pumpkin powder can be a useful technique to preserve the pumpkin and obtain new processed food products from dehydrated pumpkin. The review focused on production of pumpkin powder by various drying techniques and incorporation of pumpkin powder in various bakery products as a replacement of wheat flour and also fortification of phytochemicals . The review also focused on physico chemical analysis of the pumpkin powder and pumpkin based bakery products and sensory analysis of the pumpkin based products. The replacement level of wheat flour by pumpkin flour in various bakery products determined by various researcher also focused in this review. The researchers reported that increasing the pumpkin flour concentration had an adverse effect on sensory analysis and colour. The researcher reported that pumpkin flour with low to medium concentration was found to be more acceptable from sensory point of view and thereafter sensory score was reduced. Adding more pumpkin powder increased the level of carotene in the bakery products. Phytochemicals were increased with increasing pumpkin flower concentration in bakery products.

Keywords: Pumpkin powder, ß-carotene, cookie, cake, physiochemical analysis

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0405089