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 |
The present experiment on “Effect of drying techniques and embedding media on the colour, shape retention and overall acceptability of Palash (Butea monosperma Lam.) and Semal (Bombex ceiba L.)” was conducted in the Department of Floriculture and Landscaping, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalarapatan, Jhalawar during March, 2017 to August 2017. The experiment had total 22 treatments combination studied in two flowers, including three drying conditions viz. room condition, hot air oven (40ËšC, 50ËšC and 60ËšC) and microwave oven (2 minutes, 3 minutes and 4 minutes) in combination with three different embedding media sand, borax and silica gel. The experiment was laid out in completely randomized design (CRD) with three replications. Out of the 22 treatments studied, sensory score for colour (8.11, 8.57), shape (7.51, 8.55), overall acceptability (7.75, 8.56) of dried flowers of Palash and Semal were also highest with microwave oven drying for 3 minutes and 4 minutes with silica gel embedding. Therefore, on the basis of results of present experiment it may be concluded that dehydration of flowers of Palash and Semal can be done in microwave oven for 3 minute, 4 minute with silica gel embedding for getting good quality dried flowers.
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