Food Technology, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Department

-Determination of nutrient contents of food and plant species,

-Developing new products,

-Determination of convenient packaging and storage technologies of the products,

-Determination of microbiological and chemical stabilities of the food products,

-Determination of the product quality parameters,

-Food safety

-Collection of the medicinal and aromatic plants from nature, identification, cultivation, adaptation and breeding of the medicinal and aromatic plants

-Preservation and collection of the genetical resources,

-Determination of the growing techniques of medicinal and aromatic plants,

-Developing of the rapid propagation techniques and research studies about the qualified production material (sapling, seedling) breeding studies.

Traditional citrus peel jams (citrus, bergamot, grapefruit jams) eggplant, watermelon peel, fig, pumpkin, date, tomato and kumquat jams, citrus marmalade, orange juice concentrate, bergamot peel grater and essence, pomegranate juice and sour, dried pomegranate grain and grounded seed, medicinal and aromatic plants herbal tea, oils, etc., are being produced in the pilot food production facility of the institute.​

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