Sem8

The course is all about a science and engineering field that deals with the study of snack food processing and its products. It is part of processing industry that involves processing, packaging, distribution and transportation of various snack products such as extruded products, fruit and vegetable based snacks, salted, spiced and sweetened coated nuts, grain-based snacks, flour based– batter and dough based snack products, savoury, farsans and instant premixes of traditional Indian snack foods,etc. It also involves science of biochemistry, food microbiology and nutrition. The aim of the course is to provide the students with deep understanding of how nutrients contributes to maintain healthy life and technology contributes to maintain quality, extend shelf life and improve functions of packaging.

The aim of the course is to provide students with advanced knowledge in the field of agri-food waste management, particularly on waste treatment ways. The focal point of the course is based on the importance and role of waste management in the environment within the frame of the sustainable concept aspects, description and classification of by-products in agriculture and food industry sectors and possibilities of their reduction and eventually possible re-use.