“…In India, jambolan has a long history of use in the treatment of various diseases (Ayyanar & Subash-Babu, 2012;Baliga, Bhat, Baliga, Wilson, & Palatty, 2011;Sah & Verma, 2011;Rodrigues et al, 2015;Sari, Setiawan, & Siswoyo, 2015) especially diabetes (Helmstädter, 2008;Kumar et al, 2008;Tupe et al, 2015). Moreover, there is an increasing interest in the inclusion of jambolan in the human diet as a fresh fruit and also as prepared foods like health juice (Swami, Thakor, Patil, & Haldankar, 2012), jam (Lago, Gomes, & Da-Silva, 2006;Lago-Vanzela, Santos, Lima, Gomes & Silva, 2011), pulp (Aqil, Gupta, Munagala, Jeyabalan, & Kausar, 2012), frozen yoghurt (Bezerra, Araujo, Santos, & Correia, 2015), muffins (Singh, Kaur, Shevkani, & Singh, 2015), seed powder (Sheikh, Shahnawaz, Nizamani, Bhanger, & Ahmed, 2011), wine (Nuengchamnong & Ingkaninan, 2009), spray-dried extracts from its seeds (Peixoto & Freitas, 2013), spray-dried fruit juice powder (Santhalakshmy, Don Bosco, Francis, & Sabeena, 2015), freeze-dried fruit (Santana et al, 2015) and powder obtained by drying residue from peel and seeds in a spouted bed (Mussi, Guimarães, Ferreira, & Pereira, 2015).…”