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Indian Traditional Sweets JSP Final

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INDIAN TRADITIONAL SWEETS

Prof Jagadish Pai


Executive Director - PFNDAI
WHAT ARE TRADITIONAL INDIAN SWEETS
 Traditional sweets in India are many different types
 They may be based on dairy, cereals, pulses or fruits or
combinations of ingredients
 The list includes a large number of items with
variations
 Varieties are large and also depend on regional
preferences and practices
VARIETIES IN INDIAN SWEETS
 One may find different sweets like pedha, burfi,
jalebi, ras gulla, gulab jamun, Mysore pak, kaju
katli, ras malai, sandesh, gajar halwa, laddoo,
soan papdi, puran poli, shrikhand, chikki, kulfi
and many more
 Further within each type there are so many
different varieties e.g. laddoos can be besan, dink
or gond, coconut, motichur, boondi, rawa, til,
murmura etc.
SWEETS MARKET: GLOBAL & INDIAN
 Global confectionery market size is over USD 200 billion
 Traditional Indian sweets market is said to be around Rs
45,000 crores (USD 6 billion) of which packaged market is
said to be Rs 3,500 crores
 Chocolate & sugar confectionery is about Rs 11,000 crores
 Thus traditional sweets industry dominates Indian
scenario. These figures can be even larger as fairly sizeable
manufacture traditional sweets occurs in unorganised
sector for which figures are not very clear
EXPORT POTENTIAL FOR INDIAN SWEETS
 Total sweets export from India was Rs 750 crores
in 2019 of which bulk was traditional sweets
 There is a large population of NRIs outside India
and they love to eat Indian sweets
 In the USA not only one can get sweets exported
from India but there are units making them
there for local consumption
REASONS FOR LARGE TRADITIONAL MARKET
 Indians love the traditional sweets like pedha and burfi
which they ate while growing
 Traditional sweets are also given at religious and festival
occasions and family functions like marriages
 Things are changing with young children prefer chocolates
and cakes and donuts
 People are also venturing for changes
 Quality and safety issues are also playing role
MAKING OF SWEETS

 Dairy based
 Cereal & Pulses based

 Fruit based
DAIRY BASED SWEETS
 Milk is concentrated to make khoa
 Khoa is then mixed with sugar and other ingredients to
make different types of peda, burfi etc.
 Milk (mostly cow’s) may also be fermented to produce acid
and that would coagulate it to make curd
 Acid may be added with heat to expedite process
 Curd could be hung to remove whey to prepare chhanna
 This may be used to make Bengali mithai like ras gulla
 Panneer is prepared by acid coagulation with heat and
mostly buffalo milk is used
CEREAL & PULSE BASED SWEETS
 Rice, wheat, rajgeera, bengal gram, peanut in
different forms including flour, flakes, grits etc.
may be mixed with sugar or jaggery syrup and
concentrated
 Most commonly laddoos are made but many
other sweets like halwa, jalebi, chikki etc. are
also made
FRUITS & VEGETABLES
 Mango, guava, banana
 Carrot, Bottle gourd

 Pulp concentrated with sugar


HOW ARE INDIAN SWEETS DIFFERENT
 Many contain nutritional ingredients
 Dairy based contain high protein

 Pulse based contain high dietary fibre

 Fruit & nut based contain high fibre,


phytochemicals, etc.
 Although high in sugar, there is some hurdle to
blood sugar increase due to protein & fibre
SCALING UP PROBLEMS
 Uniform Quality of Raw Material Needed
 Artisans & Machines are different e.g. chapatis or rotis
made by rolling pin may differ from machine rolled
 Machines are not easily adaptable to changes in
formulation
 Analytical methods should be rapid and accurate for
uniform quality of products
 Machinery fabricator must work with product
manufacturer to design proper machines
SCALING UP PROBLEM – SHELF LIFE
 Although some like chikki and laddoos based on cereals &
pulses and having low moisture will have long shelf life of
weeks or months
 Many with higher moisture and especially dairy based like
peda and burfi have low shelf life of a couple of days to a
week or 10 days
 Spoilage microbes grow rapidly and spoil sweets unless
they are refrigerated or heat processed or with added
preservatives
 For commercial products longer shelf life is necessary
 Gulab jamun & ras gulla are available in cans
MACHINES REPLACING WORKERS
 It is not easy to replicate by machines exactly
what hands do in making sweets
 Understanding the manual process makes it
easier to design machines to do what hands do
 Machines can do same action repetitively
without changes for hours or days or months
 Machines can do it much faster
 Speed at the expense of quality not acceptable
HOW SCALING UP IS ACHIEVED
 When you want to boil a glass of water over stove
it is very easy and can be done in couple of min
but when 5000 litres of water is to be boiled you
can’t use the same technique
 One can use jacketed vessel using steam

 One can inject steam into body of water

 One can use plate or tubular heat exchangers

 If milk is used instead of water then one must be


careful as too much heat can cause problems
CONCENTRATION
 Small halwai takes a wide shallow vessel with fire
below to concentrate milk or syrup
 When large amounts are to be concentrated you may
require steam jacketed vessel for uniform heating
 You may need steam injected into liquid for faster heat
transfer
 Evaporation is faster is vacuum is applied
 Colour and flavour of traditional sweets is obtained
because of reactions among ingredients and
components such as protein and carbohydrates and if
very rapid process is used these may not develop
adequately
DRYING
 Further drying can be again accomplished by dry hot air
 This may be done in a chamber bringing in hot dry air
and carrying away the cooler moist air
 Air circulation is important to avoid difference in drying
rate different points
 Vacuum may expedite drying but then air may create
problems so heating may be done by contact
 Microwave could be used for more efficient heating

 Drying is faster when greater surface area is provided


EXTRUSION & ROLLING
 Traditionally laddoos, peda, gulab jamun etc are hand
rolled
 Machines can extrude the sweet dough through die and
cut it in small pieces which are then rolled by flat
surfaces into balls
 Different sizes and textures can be handled
 Each piece is of same size and weight
 In case of peda, roller die can directly roll the dough into
small delicate peda design of different shape & size
 In jalebi making dough is directly extruded into hot
frying oil in intricate design
MODAK MAKING MACHINE
MULTIPURPOSE MACHINE FOR PEDA, LADDOO, GULAB
JAMUN & RAS GOLLA
PEDA MACHINE
JALEBI MACHINE
BURFI MIXER
COATING
 Sweets especially nuts could be coated with
sugar, chocolate and other base coating with
different flavours to make many varieties
 Coating pans are developed indigenously

 Similar to machines used for Gems-like candies


CHANGES IN FUTURE
 People want something new & different
 Attracted by Chocolates, Donuts, Cakes, Cookies,
Scones, Candies, jujube, coated nuts, etc
 Want to reduce sugar & fats

 Healthier sweets
NEWER FLAVOURS & VARIATIONS
 People like chocolate
 Some have developed chocolate shrikhand, burfi & peda
 Mango shrikhand is popular
 People are getting used to fusion
 Addition of fruits, nuts, spices, herbs, mixing ingredients
creates variation in flavours
 Addition of other ingredients will change texture, appearance
and taste which needs to be considered
 Nuts are quite popular but coated nuts are new with many
different flavours
 Coating machinery is available
 Cookies, candies, jujubes are getting popular so Indian
varieties could be developed having similar characteristics but
materials and flavours could be Indian
SUGAR-FREE OR LOW SUGAR
 Because of health reasons people are looking for
reduction of sugar but not taste
 Various substances with different sweetness intensity
are available
 People have used sucralose, sugar alcohols, fructose
oligo saccharide (FOS), stevia etc.
 Sugar in normal sweet is anywhere from 15% to 40%
so when that is replaced by sweetener it changes
texture and other characteristics
 Need for filler material and changes in formulation
necessary to ensure same experience
 Sugar also has a role to play in sweets beside sweet
taste; its reaction with proteins and other ingredients
produces flavour which will be altered when it is
replaced by another ingredient
LOW FAT SWEETS
 Most traditional sweets not only have sugar but
sizeable amount of fat
 Many consumers are looking for lower fat sweets
because of obesity, CVD, high bp etc.
 Again replacing a lot of fat will affect flavour and
texture which needs to be compensated
 Filler substances need to be added
 Fat replacers are compounds – are either
carb/protein based or fat based substances
 These resemble fat functionally but provide much
less energy
HEALTHIER INGREDIENTS
 Traditional sweets except the pulse based ones
have low dietary fibre
 Addition of fibre either from ingredients or
substances
 Use of pulse, dry fruits including nuts can add
dietary fibre
 FOS can add sweetness and dietary fibre

 Isolated fibre from other sources

 Some fibres can alter texture but many without


HEALTHIER INGREDIENTS - 2
 There are many healthy substances that could be
added to sweets to make them healthier
 However, some substances have colours and
flavours that need to be suppressed
 Omega 3, Anthocyanins, Carotenoids, and a
whole range of phytochemicals are now available
to make something as delicious as our traditional
sweets also healthy

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