Anand Agricultural University PG Admission

My brother looking for the PG course admission notification of the Anand Agricultural University . Will you please tell me when the notification will be provided by the Anand Agricultural University for PG course admission , and how to download that notification.

Can you provide me the syllabus of Entrance Examination for PG Admissions – M. Tech. in Food Processing Technology of Anand Agricultural University?

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The syllabus of Entrance Examination for PG Admissions – M. Tech. in Food Processing Technology of Anand Agricultural University is as follows:


Food Processing Technology: Introduction, historical development, status of food processing in India, sources of food and their classification. Food preservation - definition, advantages, mechanisms and techniques of food preservations. Blanching, pasteurization and sterilization - definition, types and equipment. Effect of blanching/pasteurization/sterilization on food quality. Aseptic processing - definition, procedure and equipment. Chilling - principle, systems, chill injury and chill storage conditions for various fruits and vegetables. Freezing - principles, quick and slow freezing, cryogenic freezing, thawing and application of freezing in food. Irradiation – concept, mechanism, advantages, application, limitations and effect of ionizing radiation on food. Extrusion - definition, types, equipment, applications of extrusion and extruded products. Baking and Roasting - definition and food applications. Extraction – Leaching, solvent extraction, super critical extraction, equipment and applications. Crystallization - principle, equipment and applications. Frying - principle, types, food application, frying equipment and fried food products. Membrane processing - osmosis, reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, types of membranes and their limitations and application of membrane processing in food. Hurdle Technology – concept, mechanism and application in food. Minimal processing, Pulsed electric field processing, High pressure processing and
Ultrasound processing.


Processing Technology of Food Grains: Status of food grain production and its supply chain in India; structure, physico-chemical properties, thermal properties and biochemical properties of food grains, Effect of different factors on the physical, thermal and biochemical properties of grains. Parboiling- methods, effect of parboiling on milling, nutritional and cooking quality of rice; Paddy milling: operations, equipment, factors influencing final rice- milling outturn, processed rice products; Wheat milling: break system, purification system and reduction system, extraction rate, processed wheat products, quality characteristics of flour and their suitability. Pulse mill equipment, methods and milling process. Dry and wet milling of corn, Starch and gluten separation; Malting and milling of barley, Milling of millets; Oil milling mechanical oil expression, solvent extraction. processing of extracted oil refining, hydrogenation, fractionation, transesterification, and interesterification. Processing of deoiled cakes.


Syllabus of Entrance Examination M. Tech. in Food Processing Technology of Anand Agricultural University