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Greetings to all of you!! We are excited to inform you that my new NPTEL online certification course on "Modern Food Packaging Technologies: Regulatory Aspects and Global Trends" will start on 22nd January 2024. We are here for the next 12 weeks to offer you all the course on food packaging technologies and their trends worldwide. Considering the past few years, NPTEL courses on food packaging are very limited. So, keeping this in mind, we have come up with this course that will be very helpful to industry personnel, scientists, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and research scholars. Take advantage of this chance to enhance your knowledge and skills on this fascinating subject. We encourage you to complete the registration process as soon as possible to avoid any last-minute rush. To register, click on the following link: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc24_ag07/preview Also, you can earn a certificate by registering for the exam now. This is a fantastic opportunity for all of you to secure your NPTEL certificate by passing the exam. To register for the exam, click on the following link: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc24_ag07/preview Thank you for your commitment to learning and boosting your skills and knowledge of food packaging aspects. We wish you the best of luck in the upcoming certification exam! |

Food processing, the emerging frontier technology of the current century, is always a challenge to provide food sustenance to the growing population. If surplus production in seasons is not processed on time for future consumption, this may lead to serious social crisis. It becomes imperaative to develop appropriate technologies in the areas of surplus production, process automation and non-availability of technologies with regard to untouched forest productions and other various crops such as chironji, aloe vera, continuous withering of tea leaves, puffing (fat free) of snack food, extraction of neutraceuticals etc. Processing at the production site will cut the transportation cost and reduce unnecessary waste generation at the urban processing sites and pose threat to environment, which otherwise will be used either as cattle feed or compost in rural production site.  Processing at the rural sits will reduce migration of people to urban areas. It will also improve the social-economic status of the producers.
  • Development of Cold Plasma-Treated Soy Pea Protein Meat Analogues Incorporating Mango Peel Powder as a Texturant by Low-Moisture Extrusion: Evaluation of Rehydration Kinetics and Textural Properties by Rout S., Srivastav P.P. Journal of Food Science 91 - (2026)
  • Maize starch and -cyclodextrin nanocarriers for encapsulation of Centella asiatica polyphenols: synthesis, physicochemical properties, and pH-responsive delivery by Tripathy S., Srivastav P.P. Food Chemistry 507 - (2026)
  • Developing a chickpea protein flaxseed oil emulsion gel meat analogue using the freeze-alignment technique by Durage T.T.D., Kumar A., Hsu C.-I., Wickramasinghe K., Jaiswal S.G., Gupta R.K., Srivastav P.P. Sustainable Food Technology 3 1996-2008 (2025)
  • CHIRONJI (BUCHANANIA LANZAN) NUT DECORTICATING MACHINE by Kumar J., Srivastav P. P., Bhowmick P. K., Prabhakar P. K. - (2024)
  • A LOW COST EXTRUDER FOR THIRD GENERATION SNACKS by Srivastav P. P., Das A. B. - (2021)
  • Advanced Starch Modifcation: Emerging Technologies and Industrial Applications by Srivastav P.P., Gupta R.K., Karunanithi S. Advanced Starch Modification: Emerging Technologies and Industrial Applications 1-281 (2025)

Principal Investigator

  • AICRP on Post- Harvest Engineering & Technology IIT, Kharagpur (other than Salaries) ICAR
  • AICRP on Post- Harvest Engineering & Technology IIT, Kharagpur (other than Salaries) ICAR
  • AICRP on Post- Harvest Engineering & Technology IIT, Kharagpur-I (salaries) ICAR
  • AICRP on Post- Harvest Engineering & Technology IIT, Kharagpur-I (salaries) ICAR

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Nutrition Innovation Hub (NIH) for LSFF Scale Up - IIT Kharagpur Center Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)

Ph. D. Students

Eram Fatma

Area of Research:

Jyotsana Patel

Area of Research: Food processing and preservation

Subhradeep Samadder

Area of Research: Food Processing and Preservation