BFT062

Traditional & Fermented Foods

L-T-P3-0-0 Credits3 Session2024-25 TypeTheory
Appears in 1 semester

B.Tech Food Technology · Sem 6 (Departmental Elective-III)

Syllabus

5 units · 40 lecture hours
Unit1

Unit 1

8 hrs
  • Indian traditional sweet, savory and snack food products: Sweetmeats, Namkins, Papads , Idli and Dosa.
  • Raw materials, Role of Ingredients and preparation.
Unit2

Unit 2

8 hrs
  • Preparation and Maintenance of Microbial cultures for food fermentations. Industrially important cultures, Inoculum Development for industrial fermentations
  • Lactic acid bacteria-activities and health-promoting effects. Mushrooms: Cultivation and preservation.
Unit3

Unit 3

8 hrs
  • Fermented Dairy Products: Cheeses, Curd and Yoghurt, Butter milk and the fermented milks. Spoilages and defects of fermented dairy products and their control.
  • Preparation and processing of Fermented meat and fish products.
Unit4

Unit 4

8 hrs
  • Fermentative Production of Alcoholic Beverages as Beer, Wines, Cider and Vinegar. Raw materials, Role of Ingredients, Process, Quality Factors, Common faults and Remedies.
  • Principles and Process involved in the making of Fermented Vegetables (Pickles).
Unit5

Unit 5

8 hrs
  • Production of Baker's Yeast, Microbial Proteins and fats, Food enzymes, and Food additives.
  • Oriental fermented foods. Soya Sauce, Koji, Tempeh, Miso, Natto, Tofu, Minchin etc.
Course Objectives3 points
  • To impart student basic knowledge of the traditional Indian sweets, savory and snack products
  • To impart knowledge regarding their manufacturing technology and Quality Aspects
  • To give them understanding of fermented food products, technology of production and quality aspects.
Course Outcomes (COs)6 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO1Understand the concept of traditional Indian food products.
  2. CO2Understand the processing technology and quality of traditional Indian food products.
  3. CO3Understand the importance and techniques of fermentation in food industry.
  4. CO4Understand the technology of different type food products produced by fermentation
  5. CO5Understand the direct or indirect use of microorganism in the food production industry.
  6. CO6Understand the quality & safety requirements involved in manufacture of fermented food products. Bloom’ s Level POs 1: Slight (Low) 2: Moderate (Medium) 3: Substantial (High) “-”: No Correlation PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12

REFERENCEBOOKS

  1. S.No

Books

  1. Year of Publication/ Reprint
  2. K.H. Steinkrus : Handbook of Indigenous Fermented Foods, CRC Press, 2018
  3. De Sukumar: Outlines of Dairy Technology, 46th Edition, Oxford University Press 2019
  4. Prescott & Dunn Industrial Microbiology,4th Ed. CBS Publishers and Distributors 2005
  5. L.E. Casida Industrial Microbiology, 2nd Edition, New Age International Publishers 2019

Official AKTU syllabus

This subject is on page 34, 35 of the original AKTU PDF.

Official AKTU syllabus PDF ↗