A recipe of shrimp cracker (a type of crispy biscuit) enriched with shrimp shell protein was developed from underutilized shrimp shell wastes and the effects of different amount of shrimp shell powders on the quality and shelf life of the products were studied. Shrimp industry wastes (head, appendages, carapaces, and shell) were thoroughly washed, dried in hot air oven at 60 ○ C for 24 h and ground by a blender. Fine shrimp shell powder thus obtained was used for making shrimp crackers. Hydrolyzed vegetable oil, was beaten by hand and other ingredients such as powder milk, sugar, oil, baking powder, flour and vanilla essence were mixed to make a dough. Various levels of shrimp shell powder (5%, 10%, and 20%) were mixed to the dough to enrich with shrimp protein. The dough was kept flatted in a tray, cut into pieces of different shape by dies and put into the oven at 100 ○ C for 8 minutes. Increasing the quantity of shrimp shell powder in shrimp crackers increased the protein content but the quality in terms of taste, color and flavor was slightly decreased. Using of 10% shrimp shell powder obtained the best quality shrimp crackers, in terms of both protein enrichment and sensory quality. Quality of shrimp crackers was tested by both subjective and objective methods. Products made with 10% shrimp shell powder had an acceptable bacterial load in refrigeration up to 45 days but in room temperature up to 30 days. Low storage quality in room temperature might be due to inadequate packaging in the laboratory condition. This research revealed that high quality protein fortified shrimp crackers could be manufactured from unutilized shrimp shell wastes.
An investigation was carried out to compare the physical, chemical, microbiological and sensory properties of three freshwater dried fish products of Wallago attu Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (Siluriformes: Siluridae), Channa striatus (Bloch, 1793) (Perciformes: Channidae) and Glossogobius giuris (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Perciformes: Gobiidae). The traditionally sun dried fishes were collected from Kawran Bazar Fish Market, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Results showed that the water reconstitution properties varied among the dried fishes where maximum rehydration was observed in the C. striatus at room temperature, 40 oC and 60 oC. Moisture content of W. attu, C. striatus and G. giuris were 22.70% +/- 0.45%, 18.75% +/- 0.58% and 21.93% +/- 0.54%, respectively; the protein content were 61.85% +/- 0.99%, 66.44% +/- 1.02% and 62.83% +/- 0.87%, respectively; the lipid content were 6.21% +/- 0.93%, 6.81% +/- 0.72% and 5.98% +/- 0.55%, respectively, and the ash content were 6.79% +/- 1.11%, 6.49% +/- 1.29% and 7.83% +/- 0.98%, respectively. Peroxide value, acid value, pH, TVB N value and aerobic plate count were found to be highest in W. attu followed by G. giuris and C. striatus. Results of this study revealed that traditionally sun dried fish products were acceptable quality in terms of physico-chemical, microbiological and sensory aspects.
A method was developed for commercial scale production of chitin and chitosan in Bangladesh from marine shrimp, P. monodon and freshwater prawn, M. rosenbergii shell and appendages. Chitin is a macro-molecular linear polymer of anhydro N-acetyl glucosamine (N-Acetyl, 2-Amino 2-Deoxy DGlucose) and chitosan is deacetylated chitin. For production of chitin, fresh shells of P. monodon having initial bacterial load of >10 5 CFU/g sample and peroxide values of >10 mmol free iodine liberated /kg of oil were washed with dilute sulfuric acid. Adhered proteins were removed by washing with low strength alkaline solution and then rinsed with water. Crude chitin thus prepared was treated with concentrated hydrochloric acid and purified chitin was obtained after treating with low strength alkali solution. Water soluble chitosan was prepared by performing a deacetylation process using 50% NaOH (w/w) at 100 o C for 4-5 hours and then washed, dried and ground. For purification of chitin and chitosan, a series of experiments were conducted to optimize the level of NaOH concentration and time and temperature schedule of demineralization and deproteinization/deacetylation. A high temperature-short time schedule obtained best quality chitin and chitosan. Both subjective and objective methods were used for the testing of quality and purity of chitin and chitosan. Comparative studies between the quality of products from different components of the shell and from different shrimp/prawn species showed that both chitin and chitosan obtained from M. rosenbergii shell were better compared to those of P. monodon in terms of extractability, deacetylation, and color. Shells obtained better product compared to shrimp appendages. The study suggests that chitin and chitosan can be produced in existing shrimp/prawn processing plants of the country with the simple renovation.
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