Formulation and Optimization of Multigrain Fermented Noodles: A Healthy and Palatable Convenience Food Option

Table 2

Analysis of variance for effect of variable on cooking weight, cooking time, hardness, and over all acceptability.

Source	Cooking weight			Cooking loss			Cooking time			Hardness			Overall acceptability
		-value	value		-value	value		-value	value		-value	value		-value	value
Model		3.82	0.05		20.78	0.0003		5.39	0.02		9.45	0.004		42.25	0.0000282
Intercept	13.67			10.24			2.18			2.09			7.38
	0.14	1.46	0.27	0.14	1.20	0.309	-0.01	0.03	0.86	0.14	12.86	0.009	0.3	48.93	0.0002
	-0.32	7.70	0.03	-0.4	10.19	0.015	0.15	13.90	0.007	0.05	1.74	0.23	0.25	33.98	0.0006
	0.18	2.53	0.16	0.86	47.37	0.0002	0.08	3.77	0.09	0.24	38.02	0.0005	-0.45	110.10	0.00002
	0.02	0.02	0.89	-1.12	40.29	0.0004	0.01	0.07	0.80	0.01	0.07	0.80	0.075	1.53	0.26
	0.07	0.17	0.69	1.05	35.10	0.0006	0.06	1.09	0.33	0.17	9.70	0.02	-0.52	74.93	0.00005
	-0.23	2.04	0.20	0.67	14.50	0.007	-0.05	0.68	0.43	0.04	0.51	0.50	-0.27	20.56	0.003
	0.39	6.25	0.04	0.005	0.001	0.98	0.05	0.98	0.36	0.12	4.56	0.07	-0.10	3.01	0.13
	0.28	3.18	0.12	-0.67	15.04	0.006	-0.07	1.67	0.24	-0.04	0.62	0.46	0.25	17.53	0.004
	0.47	8.96	0.02	-0.79	21.18	0.002	0.29	26.48	0.001	0.22	16.43	0.005	-0.50	72.25	0.0001
Lack of fit	4.17		0.10		5.48	0.07		0.24	1.56		6.26	0.05		1.53	0.34
Fit statistics
Std. dev.	0.32			0.35			0.11			0.11			0.12
Mean	14.21			9.55			2.31			2.22			7.21
	0.83			0.96			0.87			0.92			0.98

= green gram; = sorghum; = finger millet. The asterisk symbols , , and are significant at 1, 5, and 10% level of significance, respectively.