. Preparation of shrimps
RTE shrimps were prepared by marinating deveined
shrimps. Marinade consisted of soy sauce (Sams Foods
Products, Mumbai, India) (40 ml), ginger–garlic paste
(Dabur Foods Ltd., New Delhi, India) (40 g), chilli
powder (S. Narendra Kumar & Co., Mumbai, India)
(4 g) and salt (Tata Chemicals Ltd., Mumbai, India)
(12 g) per kg of deveined shrimps. The product was then
steamed for 10 min in a perforated steel container.
Partial dehydration of the product was carried out in a
hot air oven (60 1C) for 3 h to obtain awp0:85. The
product was packed after cooling in low-density
polyethylene bags (LDPE) (700 gauge; water vapor
transmission rate (WVTR) 0.4 g/m2
/day; oxygen transmission
rate (OTR) 1800 ml/m2
/day).