There has been increase in demand for intermediate moisture foods for ready-to-cook and ready-to-serve meat products. A variety of products, such as kababs, tikkas, lollipops, fingers, patties, sausages prepared from mutton, chicken, pork, and beef are available. Currently, these products are marketed frozen, since they have limited shelf life at ambient temperature. There is increasing in demand for seafood and seafood based products especially ready-to-cook and ready-to-serve convenience form. Present trends in marketing reflect a rapidly growing demand for such processed foods that are...

Battered and Breaded value added fish products is one which have a good market potential in domestic as well as international market. However, the emphasis of coated products has been shifted from home front to the restaurant and fast-food outlets. Developing battered and breaded value added fishery products is a satisfactory task for the fish processing industry with multiple benefits. Most prominent and profitable one is the coated product. Battered and breaded fish product is convenience food product valued greatly by the consumers all over the world. India has a vast potential for...