Macaroni are made from wheat flour, carbonic salt water, pure salt, soft water and other additives. Carbonic salt water with sodium or potassium carbonate as the main constituent is an important additive giving the stickiness, elasticity, smoothness and good taste.
Mixing or compounding wheat powder and additives (powder state) or their solution, is the most important factor deciding the quantity of the dough (paste state) of the additives are incorporated, with wheat powder, either dissolved or dispersed in carbonic salt solution or in emulsion state. The quantity of water and salt used in the process differs in summer and winter, as viscosity and osmotic pressure are sensitive to temperature.
Vermicelli is the symbol of religious festivals in India. It is prepared at the occasion of Rakshabandhan in the Hindu custom and at the occasion of Id-ul-fitter in the Muslim custom. Besides, it is regularly consumed by so many families as a sweet-dish, or curry or fired and salty.
Atta instant noodles is a ready to cook and serve snack food which has become very popular in India in the recent years The noodles must contain 5.5% of the solids of eggs as percent of the total solid in the finished product. The egg solids can be put into the product by addition of frozen yolks, dried yolks, frozen whole eggs, dried whole eggs, or fresh whole eggs or yolks. As a whole it is a good project for entrepreneurs to invest.
Few Indian Major Players are as under
• Indo Nissin Foods Ltd.
• M T R Foods Pvt. Ltd.
• Nestle India Ltd.
• Om Oil & Flour Mills Ltd.
• Surya Agroils Ltd.