Processing and Value addition of Bread fruit (Artocarpus Altilis)

Breadfruit (Artocorpus artilis) is a high-energy yielding, but an underutilized fruit with good source of nutrients. Breadfruit tree is deciduous and grows fast under favorable conditions, which grows upto a height of 0.5 -1.5 m per year and its trunk diameter is 0.5 -1 m in the first 10 -12 years. As raw Breadfruit is gluten-free in nature and has limited shelf life, efforts have been made to convert the fruit into flour. The Breadfruit flour has a good shelf life than the raw fruit. The processed Breadfruit flour is incorporated into variety of dishes like cookies, cakes and other snack products like Chin Chin and many more.This book tells about the processing methods and value added products prepared from Bread fruit.