National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Tuber crops find an important place in the dietary habits of the farmers; especially in attaining food security of the tribal population. A number of tubers are gathered by tribal population and consumed as a substitute to cereals or along with cereals. Significant difference was observed among fourteen different minor tubers for physical and physico chemical characteristics. The mean values for length (18.02 cm), width (7.75 cm), circumference (20.70 cm), weight (573.75 g), volume (542.12 ml), and bulk density (1.03g/ml) was noted. Dry matter (13.34-37.90 %), TSS (5.27-12.47 æ B), pH (6.20 to 7.30), and titratable acidity (0.04-0.08 %) of the selected minor tubers varied. Cooking time ranged from 11 min for alocasia, arial yam, Chinese potato and wild yam to 20 min for elephant foot yam. Weight gain ranged from 5.17 per cent for greater yam (Neelam) to 43.97 per cent for Tannia. Lesser yam, greater yam (lion foot type), greater yam (wild edible type) and Taro were highly acceptable with acceptability index of 93.21-81.97.
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