Effect of Addition of Various Proportion Finger Millet on Chemical , Sensory and Microbial Properties of Sorghum Papads

introduction Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] popularly called as jowar, is the “king of millets” and is the fifth in importance among the world’s cereals after wheat, rice, maize and barley1. Sorghum provides a good basis for gluten-free products and recommended as safe for celiac patients. Therefore, the future promise of sorghum in the developed world is for wheat substitution for people with celiac disease or allergies to gluten2. Finger millet (Eleusine coracana) can be stored for long periods without insect damage and thus it can be important during famine4. It is rich in calcium, phosphorus and iron, the calcium content is higher than in the common cereals and millets. Papad is indigenous traditional snack item with thin wafer like product prepared from variety of ingredients. These are generally made from blend of pulse flour, cereal flour and edible starches with

other ingredients.A variety of papads are available in India, which are produced from a great diversity of ingredients 8 .Generally, cereal papads are prepared from gelatinized flour prepared of soaked grains.The present study illustrated the chemical and physical analysis and organoleptic studies of papads prepared from Sorghum-finger millet flour.

Materials And Methods
Sorghum variety Parbhani Moti and Finger millet were procured from Sorghum Research Station Parbhani, Maharashtra.Refined vegetable oil, papad khar and spice mix were procured from local market.Chemicals (analytical grade), glass wares, equipments like domestic mixer (for grinding of sorghum and finger millet grains), texturometer (Stable Micro System TAXT 2 plus), colour measuring instrument-Colorflex EZ, cabinet drier, required during experiments were used from laboratory.
Freshly prepared Sorghum-finger millet papads were evaluated for chemical, microbial characteristics and sensory judgments were made through rating products on a 9 point Hedonic scale.Microbial analysis was done to study the microbial quality of sorghum-finger millet papad by using pour plate technique.The analysis was done at the interval of one month after the preparation of sorghum-finger millet papad with concentration of Papad Khar was kept as constant.

Standardization of Formula For Preparation of Sorghum-Finger Millet Papad
Standardization of formula (ingredients in g/100g) for preparation of sorghum-finger millet papad was formulated by maintaining variations in Parbhani Moti, finger millet compositions and by maintaining constant compositions of other ingredients (Papad khar, black pepper, sesame seeds and asafetida).

table 1: Standardization of formula (ingredients in g/100g) for preparation of sorghum-finger millet papad
.In sorghum and finger millet, phenolic compounds, particularly anthocyanins and condensed tannins are major contributors of colour of the grains 1 .

Effect of Storage on Microbial Quality of Papad
Samples of sorghum-finger millet papad with three months storage period tend to have higher mean bacterial counts 5.7 x 10 2 CFU/g than those with two months 4.2 x 10 2 CFU/g and one month 1.1 x 10 2 CFU/g.Total yeast and mould counts were highest 5.2 x 10 2 (CFU/g) in three months stored papad than two months 3.2 x 10 2 (CFU/g) and one month 1.5 x 10 2 CFU/g.There was growth of molds on the surface of papad with three months storage period.The growth of bacteria, yeast and mould were in increasing order as storage period increased.As the results showed that three months stored papad samples were contaminated by bacteria, yeast and mould due to increase in moisture content in papads with increase in storage period 3 .

organoleptic Evaluation of Papad
Mean appearance scores ranged from 7.1 to 8.3.S 0 papad scored highest appearance score (8.3).Mean colour scores ranged from 6.9 to 9.0.S 0 papad scored maximum colour scores (9.0).The mean flavour scores ranged from 7.1 to 8.3.S 0 papads scored higher flavour scores (8.3).The mean taste score ranged from 7.6 to 8.4.S 0 Sorghum papads incorporated with different proportions of finger millet were organoleptically evaluated and the best one (sample S 4 ) was selected and result was in accordance with results of other study 6 .

Conclusion
It is concluded that the chemical properties like moisture content was ranged from 9 to 9.25 %, fat (0.88 to 1.05 %), protein (8.39 to 12.64%), carbohydrate (76.77 to 80.21%) and ash (0.54 to 1.27%).Calcium and iron content increase with increasing the finger millet concentrations.Three months stored papad was contaminated by bacteria, yeast and mould due to increase in moisture content in papads with increase in storage period.Sorghum papad (S 4 ) prepared with 60% sorghum flour and 40% finger millet flour was selected based on organoleptic analysis.
Colour of the papads is important parameter for the acceptability of the papad.The color of the papad showed variation based on the replacement of finger millet.The L*, a*, b* values are shown in table 4. The L* correspond to lightness decreased gradually as finger millet concentrations increased.The positive values of b* indicates yellowness was decreased as finger millet concentration increased.However a* value indicates redness of papad was gradually increased as finger millet concentrations increased because of the red hue of grain coating of finger millet.It can be concluded from the results that finger millet contributes much to color values of the product.L*, a*, b* Values are means of three replicates, control 0 g/100 g.Values in the same column with different letters are significantly different at p < 0.05.L*, a* and b* values of the sorghum millet papads were compared with L*, a* and b* values of standard white reference tile.L* (lightness), a* (redness and greenness) and b* (yellowness and blueness) values of the standard white reference tile are 97.67,0.08 and 1.54, respectively

table 4 : Evaluation of colour of papad
Note:Each value is a mean of three determinations