MANGO FRUIT PROCESSING WASTES AND RESIDUES UTILIZATION
FOR FOOD AND FOOD SUPPLEMENTS
Dr Jai Singh (ARS)
Former Director ICAR – CIPHET
[email protected]
INTRODUCTION
Mango (Mangifera indica L.; family - Anacardiaceae), is one of the most commercially
cultivated fruit crop in India achieving 21.8 million tones production (Statista 2017 -18)
level. Being a seasonal fruit with limited shelf-life, the fruit quality drops down rapidly
once it is fully ripen. About 20% (4.36 million tones) of the fruits are processed for
products such as puree, nectar, leather, pickles and canned slices generating
solid waste (peel and stones), liquid and liquid waste (juice pulp and wash) and other
by products. Utilization of these wastes through conversion in to a higher valued product
is of great economic importance. This presentation elaborates utilization of unripe and
ripe mango processing wastes and residues for food, food supplements, feed,
nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and industrial purposes.
Consultations: ICAR – IIHR, ICAR – CISH, ICAR – IARI, ICAR – CIAHICAR – CITH ,
ICAR – CIPHET and many others.
Constraints for Effective Utilize of Fruits Wastes and Processing Byproducts as
Food Supplements:
The wastes may be in the form of damaged, de-shaped, dis-coloured, over size, under
size , diseased fruits; leaves, trimming, peels, seeds, juice pulp, washings, etc from
harvest to consumption. Extreme diversity in variety, quantitatively and qualitatively
availability, high parishability along with peculiar consumption pattern are the added
factors to constraints. About 42 %, 39 %, 14 % and 5 % proportion of total wastes get
generated in household, processing, food service and retail distribution sectors,
respectively. On account of parishability, collection and management of fruit wastes in
household, food service and retail distribution is difficult. The possible way is that the
waste processors set quality parameters and organize door to door collection of wastes
in dried form on cash payment irrespective of quantity. Later on other processes will
come in force gradually.