• Chaitali Palde
• Avishkar Palde
• Simran Pagare
• Varsha Chaudhari
• Shraddha Bhavsar

Banana is a widely used plant and is a treasure of various nutrients and minerals like proteins, carbohydrates, dietary fibres, magnesium, phosphorus etc. All the parts of the banana plan have nutrients and shows different beneficial health effects. In this research project pseudostem of banana plant is used to make nutritious cookies which have various nutrients like proteins, starch, soluble and insoluble dietary fibres. Ragi is used as binder that has antidiabetic properties. The prepared pseudostem cookies are targeted towards the diabetic and obese patients due to their low sugar and high fibre content. The physical and chemical analysis of the prepared cookies was also performed that indicated the presence of cardiac glycosides, flavonoids and tannins.

Banana pseudostem, ragi, fibre, diabetes, obese patients

"Banana pseudostem and ragi cookies for diabetic and obese patients", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no.d454-d463, September-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209354.pdf

"Banana pseudostem and ragi cookies for diabetic and obese patients", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no. ppd454-d463, September-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209354.pdf