Dairy & Food Process & Products Technology online course offered by IIT Kharagpur

The Dairy and Food Process and Products Technology is a free online course offered by IIT Kharagpur conducted by the NPTEL.

About the course:

This course will cover basics of dairy (liquid food) food processing and preservation technologies required in any dairy and food processing industries.
The basic knowledge on dairy food processing is intermingled with most of the unit operations at some or other stage of processing.
Since, this basic aspect of food processing and preservation is not taught in most of the Agricultural engineering institutions elaborately, a comprehension of these aspects of processing and preservation will enrich the knowledge base of the students in general.

Syllabus:

Basic principles and methods of food processing and preservation. Emerging Technologies in food processing. Food additives and preservatives.
Food laws and standards. Effect of processing on acceptability and nutritive value of food.
Physic-chemical properties and structure of milk and milk constituents.
Chemical and microbial spoilage of milk and milk products; Fluid milk Processing, packaging and distribution.
Common dairy processes – cream separation (standardization), pasteurization, sterilization and Homogenization.
Process technology for manufacture of evaporated milk, condensed milk, dried milk, malted milk, infant and baby foods, ice-cream, cheese, butter, fermented milk and indigenous dairy products.
Methods and procedures for sampling and testing of milk and milk products. Laws and standards for milk and milk products.
Technological processes for industrially manufactured foods of commercial importance, from plant and animal origin.

Duration: 12 weeks
Enrollments: May 20, 2020 to July 27, 2020
Exam Registration: June 01, 2020 to September 18, 2020
Exam Date: October 17, 2020

For more details, please visit: https://nptel.ac.in/noc/courses/noc20/SEM2/noc20-ag02/