Mitigating stickiness to enhance consumer preference through accelerated aging of freshly harvested paddy (IPHT/AP/RP/2019/07)


In Sri Lankan context most of consumers prefer aged rice over freshly harvested rice. Natural aging of paddy is lengthy and expensive. For this reason, the accelerated rice aging techniques were applied for a faster boost in rice cooking quality. Suitability of Steam heat treatments, Dry heat treatments, steam heat treatment followed by standard parboiling and Dry heat treatment followed by standard parboiling were checked as accelerated aging techniques separately.


Year

2019

Principal Investigator

T. M. A. N. Weerasinghe

Collaborator/s

C.K. Marasinghe
H. M. A. P. Rathnayake
C.R. Gunawardhane