Biscuits from vegetables, fruits

M. Nelson Piyaratne, Kataragama group corr.

A resident of Kataragama has invented a method of producing biscuits using only vegetables and fruits without flour.

He had been conducting experiments since 1995, to find a method to produce biscuits using only vegetables and fruits.

He said that nowhere in the world have biscuits been produced without flour and he was determined to make a biscuit without using flour. Today out of his arduous experiments he has been able to produce biscuits using Varaka (ripe jak fruit), Dhel (Bread fruit), beans, pumpkins and carrots. This correspondent had a chance to relish them and they were really delicious and bore the taste of the ingredients used. They look like normal biscuits but the only difference is their taste which is indigenous. He said that at various economic centres and even in our home gardens some vegetables and fruits are wasted due to the inability of selling them or some other reasons and making biscuits from these excess vegetables or fruit is a great boon, saving a lot of money for the farmer and thereby to the country. It is an added advantage as there will not be a garbage problem as all the excess vegetables and fruits could be utilized, he said.

Once this invention was implemented on a large-scale the government can reduce the import of wheat flour and save a big amount of foreign exchange.

These biscuits will solve the problem of the people who consume artificial instant food and fall prey to undiagnosed diseases.

These biscuits have only natural ingredients and there is no harm for the body.