CONVENIENCE AND HEALTH FOODS 3 (1+2)

Lesson 8 : Extruded Foods

Extruded foods in India can play an important role in

1. Snack foods/breakfast cereals can be produced at cheaper rate than conventional methods.
2. Great potential to produce variety of new foods.
3. Providing better nutrition can be easily done by extrusion.
4. It is possible to produce snacks with less oil content especially traditional fried foods.
5. Cost of snacks can be brought down.
6. Legume based snack foods and soya nuggets which are health foods can be manufactured at a low cost.