การศึกษาคุณภาพข้าวโพดคั่วเพื่อพัฒนาเป็นผลิตภัณฑ์เชิงพาณิชย์

Abstract

Five popcorn varieties were tested for their quality at the National Corn and Sorghum Research Center in 2009. The objective is to choose the high potential popcorn variety for sugar-butter flavor popcorn snack as a commercial product. The experiment laid out in RCBD, composed of 5 treatments with 4 replications. The quality under investigation including, popping percentage, expansion volume, flake size, grain moisture, germinal and abgerminal thickness, grain size, flake type, flake color and taste score. The result found that Five stars popcorn, a commercial popcorn variety gave the best quality followed by pearl popcorn composite. It had 98 percent of popping percentage, 37 mg/g of expansion volume, 7.5 ml/grain of flake size, 274 micron of abgerminal thickness, with butterfly type and yellow flake color. The Five stars popcorn also received the best taste score of 4.0.