ABSTRACT- In many Indian houses, children are made to eat
soaked almonds and raisins for improving their mental ability. The
idea of this project was to check if these could be a better protein
source than the raw ones. Hence protein estimation of raw
almonds, soaked almonds and the water in which they are soaked,
was done and compared. Similarly the protein content of raw
raisins was compared with soaked ones. It was found that soaked
almonds have much higher protein content than the raw almonds
and so does the water in which they are soaked. Whereas soaked
raisins have lower protein content than the raw ones. Thus it was
considered as a step in designing a high protein early morning
snack which is a basic requirement for sportsmen like swimmers
for building up their stamina. To make this economically suitable
for even the lower middle class almonds were replaced with
peanuts and was found that even soaked peanuts have higher
protein content than raw peanuts. To further the research
sauerkraut’s (finely shredded cabbage fermented with various
lactic acid bacteria) protein concentration was estimated with
varying quantity of salt concentration. It was found that beyond
20% salt concentration the protein content increased and
remained uniform thereafter.