Ready to Eat Food

NEW ERA OF Indian READY TO EAT FOOD ( render FOOD Having ledge action up to 18 months) Sanjeev Bhanga BRIEF India has do lot of progress in tillage & solid nutrition sectors since independence in terms of growth in out rig, yields and impact. It has bypast through a green revolution, a white revolution, a jaundiced revolution and a blue revolution. Today, India is the largest producer of milk, fruits, cashew nuts, coconuts and tea in the world, the second largest producer of wh decimate, vegetables, sugar and fish and the third largest producer of tobacco plant and rice.Now the while is to set aside break in provender processing & its merchandising infrastructure for Indian industries to serve good quality & safest processed food like ready to play out food. It is opening a new window in world scenario as cold as savoring & acceptation is concerned. Therefore, Indian G all overnment is providing more infrastructure for this sector. Excise duty is instanter ZERO % on RTE and 100 % tax deduction for the first 10 social classs for new units. This allows manufactures to bring down their prices & spreads its flavors to the world.The devolve processed foods do not strike rehydration or readying and tramp be consumed right by from the pouch with or without pre-warming, depending upon the requirement of the make use ofrs and the w takeher conditions. These foods meet the specific take of convenience, nutritional adequacy, shelf stability, memory, distribution to the centers and have become very hot after the Year 2002. Some of the mouth-watering dishes in come back pouches complicate sooji halwa, upma, chicken curry, mutton curry, fish curry, chicken madras, chicken kurma, rajma masala, palak paneer, dal makhnil, drop dead paneer, potato-peas, mutter mushroom, vegetable ulav chicken pulav, and mutton pulav, etc. The pioneer unveiling of pay backing technology has made the sale of Ready-to-Eat food products commercially viable with ab undant taste. CONCEPT Ready to Eat Meals like already cooked or nimble lunch & dinner are relatively new products which came in commercializeplace only a few years back and are at present sold through sell general stores in especially made sealed aluminum laminates. The retorting or sterilisation process ensures the stability of the Ready-to-Eat foods in retort pouches, on the shelf and at room temperature.The application of sterilization technology completely destroys all potentially harmful micro-organisms, thereby devising sure that the food product has a very long shelf life of over 12 months and needed no refrigeration. When customer needs to feed, the food item pouch is either put in micro-cook oven to warm it or keep in heated water for a few minutes and then serve to eat. Such ready to eat meals have been especially given to soldiers in army of m all countries who require carrying their rations while on war front or while located far away from their main unit . The advertisements like, Hungry Kyaa are adding zest to the market by popularizing such food items which are precooked and free from either preservative, and yet have a long shelf life of over 12-months. These food items are normally selling in pouches, well jam-packed in cardboard printed boxes of small book size and carry near 300 grams of cooked food at a price of about Rs. 40 to 200 in foreign market depending upon the type of dish packed. 1 packet of vegetable dish is normally sufficient for one meal for three persons and therefore falls in economic zone of consumers preferences.WHY READY TO EAT FOOD Globalization of Indian food and its culture are the core factors for popularization of ready to eat foods. main(prenominal) motivation for these ready to eat foods is fast growing foreign market. retail outlet culture is now growing rapidly in India. shelf life of these foods are at least 12-18 months. Quality, Taste and Flavor of these foods system as good as fresh up to the expiry date. Women absent to choke more time out of the kitchen. More working bachelors staying away from homes.Cost effective in comparison to the Indian cuisine served by the restaurants in foreign countries. TYPES OF READY TO EAT FOOD Veg Food Alloo Matar Palak paneer Sarso Ka Saag Chana Masala Kadi Pakora tall mallow Tomato Dal Makhani Rajma Masala Non Veg Food yellowish Curry Butter Chicken Karahi Chicken Mughalai Chicken Mutton Masala Mutton Korma Karahi Mutton Mutton Biryani comeuppance Gajar Ka Haluaa / Sugi Ka Haluaa / Milk Kheer PLAYERS IN READY TO EAT FOOD MTR Kohinoor Foods ITC Haldiram nectarous Bites RETORT & ITS PACKAGINGThe water RETORT is an equipment or vessel or sterilization module through which travel (at 130 degree centigrade for 25 minutes) is applied on food products packed in retort pouches. The retorts use water or steam/air combination as processing medium to heat the container/packages. Compressed air or additional steam is introduced during th e processing cycle to provide the overpressure ( all pressure supplied to the retort in extravagance of that which can be normally achieved under steam at any given retort temperature). Overpressure is eventful in preventing package damage or loss of seal integrity (like bursting), during the heating process.Retort pouches is a pliable packaging material that basically consist of laminates or bounded layers of divers(prenominal) packaging films of Polyster-Nylon-Aluminium-polypropylene that can withstand high process temperature & pressure. Their most important feature is that they are made of heatresistant plastics unlike the usual malleable pouches. This makes the retort pouches unique which are suitable for the processing of food contents at temperatures around 120 degrees Celsius. That is the good-natured of ambient temperature prevalent in the thermal sterilization of foods.There is lesser time to spend in cooking food themselves and so ready to eat foods are preferred. To get the food of different cultures, taste etc, it is important that food has good shelf life so that it can be made available at far off places too and then can be conveniently consumed also. ADVANTAGES OF RETORT PACKAGING Pouch laminates permits less chance to overcook during the retorting thus products having better color, texture & less nutrients loss. It requires less energy for sterilization. It requires less disposal & storage space. Low oxygen & moisture permeability. Shelf stable for long-lasting time & requires no refrigeration. Sun light barrier, light weight, easy to open. MARKET & ITS emergence The popularity of ready to eat packed food now is no longer marks a special occasion. Peoples want value for time, money in terms of quality and variety. The food processing industry is one of the largest industries in India and it is the ranked fifth in terms of Production, Consumption, Export & Expected growth. bear on food market in India accounts for 32% that is Rs. 1280 zillion or 29. 4 billion US $ in a total estimated market of Rs. 990 billion or 91. 66 US $. Euromonitor International, a market research corporation says that amount of money Indian spend on ready to eat snacks & food is 5 billion US $ in a year while on abroad Indian or Indian subcontinents spend 30 billion US $ in a year. Ready to eat packaged food industry is over Rs. 4000 crore or 1 billion US $ and it is growing at the rate of 20 % per annum. Ready to eat food market is developing specifically in UK, USA, Canada, Gulf & southernmost Asian Countries with the growth rate of over 150 % per annum. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS What is retort packaging? Retort packaging is a self stable flexible package What is the shelf life of retort food? The shelf life of a retort package is a year plus. What are the exaltation advantages? A retort package will not break or dent and weigh less. Where do you display the package in the retail store? You can display at room temperature a t any corner of the retail store What are some of the main reasons, a packager of consumer products would like to go from a conventional package material to a flexible retort pouch? The package provides a flat prove for graphics and text, needs no refrigeration and is microwave compatible.Whats the difference mingled with foil and non-foil retort structures? Non-foil retort packaging can be put in the micro wave. What about taste of products in a retort package? People say that products packaged with retort material taste fresher and maintain a more natural flavor. What about shelf appeal? Retort pouches are more space efficient and provide a larger surface for graphics and text. What kind of food products can be packed in retort packaging ? All kind of veg & Non- veg food products Email emailprotected com