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Snack bars are ready to eat food bars which consist of various cereals, nuts, seeds or dried fruits as the major ingredients. They are portable snacks that can provide energy during the day. Snack bars can be formulated to contain high energy, high protein and high fibre. Snack bars can also contain vitamins, minerals and … Read more

Chewable tablets are a convenient alternative to conventional tablets. They have the great advantage of not requiring water, which means that they can be taken at any time and in any place and are palatable. The chewable tablet is formulated to disintegrate in the mouth smoothly either with or without chewing. Chewable tablets are specially … Read more

Ice confection is made by frozen preparation of water with other food ingredients. The other food ingredients are from milk or milk products, vegetable fat, sugar, colouring, flavouring and food conditioner (Malaysian Food Act 1983 and Food Regulation, 1985). Main Researcher: Wan Rosnani Awg IsaEmail: wros@mpob.gov.my

Palm based oleochemicals are suitable to be used as feedstock to produce a base oil lubricant (Yeong et al., 2010). Palm oil possesses good inherent properties, which are desirable for lubricants, but it is limited by its poor low temperature fluidity. Palm oil properties can be improved in the areas of processing technology. The ideal … Read more

Palm-based sophorolipid biosurfactant production is a two-stage bioprocess where sophorolipids are mainly produced after a first stage of growth, ending because of nitrogen limitation. We report here a pilot scale production of palm-based sophorolipid biosurfactant which we believe would be a promising starting point for the expansion of biotechnology applications of palm oil via production … Read more