Vol. 6, Special Issue 4 (2018)
Microbial analysis of selected fast foods popular among college students of rural and urban areas
Author(s): Sadhna Singh, Jyoti Tiwari, Deepti Giri, Ravindra Singh and Adesh Kumar
Abstract: The present study was undertaken to assess the microbial quality of fast foods popular among college students. Faizabad district was purposively selected for the study. Two colleges namely Chandrabali Singh Urmila Mahavidyalaya, Shivnagar, Kumarganj, Faizabad from rural area and Saket P.G. College, from urban area Faizabad were selected for the study. A sample of 260 college students 130 each, were selected from two colleges. Information regarding age, sex, caste, family composition, education and economic status of the family and specific information regarding fast food choice, type of fast food liked, reason for consuming fast food, opinion of respondents about fast food etc. were gathered through self structured questionnaire. In this study the majority of respondents were belong to general category (33.84%). In case of their preference of fast foods majority of respondents in rural area like chaat (30.76%), samosa (29.23%), chole-bhature (18.46%), burger (30.0%) etc. On the other hand, in urban area the majority of respondents liked kachorie (23.84%) and samosa (22.30%) followed by chole-bhature (13.84) and burger (28.46%).The microbial analysis of fast foods explored showed that maximum colonies were found in chaat (6.01×105/gm) and burger (3.45×105/gm), whereas, in pastry (1.2×105/gm) and samosa (2.25×105/gm) lowest colony were observed. The reason behind this could be that in chat boiled chole is added which is boiled in the morning and is used as such tillate night which favours the growth of microbes, while in burger raw cut vegetable like tomato, cabbage, onion are added. These vegetables are cut in the bulk in the morning and used throughout the day and have greater chance for microbial growth. Whereas samosa are deep fried and pastry are kept in air conditionered show cases.
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Sadhna Singh, Jyoti Tiwari, Deepti Giri, Ravindra Singh and Adesh Kumar. Microbial analysis of selected fast foods popular among college students of rural and urban areas. International Journal of Chemical Studies. 2018; 6(4): 228-231.
