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Milk is an almost ideal food and has high nutritive value. It supplies body – building proteins, bone-forming minerals and health-giving vitamins and furnishes energy – giving lactase and milk fat. Besides supplying certain essential fatty acids, it contains the above nutrients in an easily digestable and assimilable form. All these properties make milk an important food for pregnant mothers, growing children, adolescents, adults, convalescents and patients alike.Rice is one of the leading crops all over the world, and produced in most countries. Rice is a principale source of protein in the diets of many countries such as Southeast Asia.Rice pudding (Roz billaban or rice with milk) is a dessert enjoyed by people of different cultures all over the world. It is traditionally produced in Egypt as home product, but nowadays it is commercially produced to an increasing extent. It is made by cooking rice with milk and sugar.The following ingredients were chosen for production of the best final product: buffaloes’ milk 4% fat, 8% rice (Giza 171), 11% sucrose, and 2% corn starch.The chemical composition of the best final product was 63.59, 36.41, 4, 3.8 and 0.5576% for moisture, total solids, fat, protein, carbohydrate and ash respectively.Incorporation of potassium sorbate at ratio 0.15% into rice pudding had an inhibitory effect on microorganisms, particularly yeasts & moulds and increased the keeping quality of rice pudding.Stevioside natural sweetener could be incorporated in rice pudding manufacure at a ratio of 25 to 50% as a sucrose replacer without adverce any effects on the organleptic properties.The effect of rice pudding containing different levels of Stevioside, on body weight, total cholesterol and blood constituents of albino rats was studied. The results obtained indicated that consumption of rice pudding containing Stevioside have health benefits to obese, diabetic and hepatic consumers through the reduction of body weight, serum cholesterol, triglycerides, total lipids and LDL increase of serum HDL liver function as indictors of improvmentes.
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