In the case of germinated food mixtures, the concentration of total (12.50 g/100 g), reducing (5.37 g/100 g) and non-reducing (7.13 g/100 g) sugars increased and starch content decreased (30.15 g/100 g) significantly (P < 0.05) as compared to non-germinated (unprocessed) food mixture, and this might be due to enzymatic hydrolysis of starch to simpler sugars during germination. When the germinated food blend was autoclaved, further significant decrease in starch content and corresponding increase in total soluble, reducing and non-reducing sugars was also observed. This increase could result from starch solubilisation during autoclaving. However, starch content was further decreased by about 50% when autoclaved food mixture was fermented with probiotic curd which resulted in a 5-fold increase in reducing sugars and significant decrease in total soluble and non-reducing sugar contents. Soluble sugars in the fermenting mixture may be utilized by the microflora as a carbon source and the fermented product may ultimately contain a level of sugars lower than that of the autoclaved food blend. It was reported that in the initial stages of fermentations, higher concentration of the sugars may be observed but with increased period of fermentation, the sugars may be utilized by the fermenting microflora and the fermenting product may contain lower levels of sugar than the initial concentration of sugars in the fermenting mixture. Reduction in starch in the fermented product may be attributed to hydrolysis of polysaccharides by fermenting microbes which possess both alpha and beta amylases ( Sindhu and Khetarpaul, 2005 and Sripriya et al., 1997).