Functional Chicken Chips: With Natural Additives

Consumption of unhealthy snack foods with high fat content, added chemical preservatives and low nutritive value is one of the predisposing factors for most of the lifestyle diseases. The awareness about functional foods is increasing among consumers to improve their health. At the same time, preference for delicious, tasty, ready-to-eat meat products is increasing due to changing life style and the busy schedules of working people, high mobility groups, and change in eating habits of children and its convenience and wide acceptability. Nowadays preference for any kind of chips as snacks food is high among the consumers. So, chicken chips incorporated with functional ingredients and natural anti-oxidants is expected to add to the functional value and thus make it acceptable product with added health benefits. Hence, the study is planned for the development of functional chicken chips using natural additives viz. flaxseed, oats, drumstick leaf and Jamun seed powder and to study its possible effects on the quality of the products during room temperature storage.