method. 1 g of the sesame flour was weighed into 50 ml centrifuge tube. Then 50 ml of distilled water was added and mixed gently. The slurry was heated in a water bath at 80 °C for 40 min. On completion, the tubes containing the gel were centrifuged at 3000 rpm for 10 min using a centrifuge. The supernatant was decanted immediately after centrifuging. The weight of the sediment was taken and recorded. The moisture content of the sediment gel was thereafter determined to get the dry matter content of the gel.