The ready-to-eat high-energy/therapeutic food (RTE-TF) paste is a homogenous mixture of peanut paste, edible oil, icing sugar, cereals and legumes flour, milk powder, and vitamin-mineral premix, and it is used for the management of Severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Accelerated storage (90% RH, 40 °C) of RTE-TF paste was conducted for 180 days to study its stability and shelf-life. In this study, three different multilayer packaging materials were used such as 40 µm metallic foil laminated low-density polyethylene (ML), 110 µm metallic foil laminated low-density polyethylene (MFL), and 125 µm aluminium foil laminated low-density polyethylene (AFL). Moisture gain (MG), water activity (aw), peroxide value (PV), total colour change (ΔE ), hardness, oil separation (AOS), and vitamin C content for the RTE-TF paste packaged in AFL, MFL, and ML were determined with storage days. The rapidly deteriorating changes were observed in the RTE-TF paste packaged in ML pouches compared to...

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VITAMIN C PEANUT PASTES CEREALS LEGUME MEAL POUCHES MALNUTRITION PEANUT PASTES CEREALS LEGUME MEAL MILK POWDERS READY TO EAT FOODS ICING SUGAR RH MOISTURE CONTENT MINERALS OILS VITAMINS CALORIES HIGH FOODS PEROXIDE VALUES PACKAGING MATERIALS AL FOILS FOILS LAMINATES LDPE STABILITY COLOUR HARDNESS PEANUT PASTES CEREALS LEGUME MEAL CALORIES HIGH FOODS SHELF LIFE STORAGE SEPARATION AW
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