Nutritional quality evaluation of popular Indian fried snacks based on cowpea

Fried snacks are popular among young Indian population. An experiment was conducted for nutritional quality evaluation of the fried cowpea snacks. Boondi, sev, enrobed nuts and fried nuts were formulated by using cowpea. These products were evaluated for proximate composition, mineral content i.e. iron, calcium and free radical scavenging activity.