CONVENIENCE AND HEALTH FOODS 3 (1+2)

Lesson 3 : Cereal Based Traditional Convenience Foods And Snacks

Traditional sweets as snacks

Candies or chikkis-Based on puffed or expanded rice and jaggery are crisp and dry and have a desirable caramelized roasted flavour.

Characteristics-

• They are marketed in the form of slabs or bars.
• Moisture content varies from 4-8 per cent and the products are hygroscopic and become soggy and sticky when exposed to moisture.
• The product is a concentrated source of

Other sweets:

Sohan papri and halwa are important items of traditional sweets from grain products.