July 28/New Delhi, India/Indian Patents News -- Dr. Ram Kishor Gupta, Dr. Alka, Mr. Rajiv Sharma and Dr. Musuvadi Ramarathinam Manikantan of Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana, India, announced the "development of sunflower kernel based confectionery products."
Post Harvest Engineering and Technology filed the patent application; the patent application number is 2405/DEL/2006 A. According to the controller general of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks, "In the health conscious world of today, nutrition helps in selling new food products prepared from novel protein sources, and sunflower is one such potential protein supplement for human diet, mainly due to its superior nutritional quality absence of anti-nutritional factor. When considered in aggregate, the amazing sunflower kernel adds a nutritional wallop to a wide array of products. The sunflower seed (Helianthus anms L) of NSFH-36 variety contains 25.4 % hull with a high fiber and wax contents, which are considered constraints in utilizing sunflower kernels in the preparation of snack foods and other confectionery items.