Abstract

DEVELOPMENT OF FRUIT ENRICHED BUTTERMILK BEVERAGE

Prashanth B. M.*, Dr. H. M. Jayaprakasha, Soumyashree T. C. and Srinivasa K.

Abstract

The investigation was aimed at developing nutritious health beverage by utilising buttermilk along with incorporation of fruit juices such as pineapple and orange juice. Buttermilk was blended with various levels of fruit juices and also along with addition of 10 per cent sugar. The study reveals that blending pineapple juice at 30 per cent and orange juice at 25 per cent resulted in most acceptable beverage. Out of that buttermilk blended with 30 per cent of pineapple juice level was optimised. The most acceptable beverage was stored in glass bottles at 4ºC±1 ºC and it was observed that the beverage prepared as above stored for period of 12 days as revealed by physico chemical and microbiological attribute studies during period of storage.

Keywords: Buttermilk, Pineapple and orange juice.