“…Recently, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) coupled with Genetic Algorithm (GA) has evolved as a multivariate optimization technique in food processing (Chakraborty & Shrivastava, 2019). ANN is a popular modeling technique which solves linear and non-linear problems of multivariate regression (Xi, Xue, Xu, & Shen, 2013:Jerome, Singh & Dwivedi, 2019 while GA which imitates the concept of biological evolution is a powerful tool for solving the optimization problems (Mukhopadhyay, Mishra, Goswami, & Majumdar, 2015). Various processes have been optimized using ANN-GA combined technology (Dash & Das, 2019;Kalathingal, Basak, & Mitra, 2019;Xi et al, 2013); however, this technique has not been used yet for ingredient optimization for new product development.…”