Authors : Prachi Marwaha, Smita Pathak & Alpana Singh
Page Nos : 132-142
Description :
India is a country where each city boasts of its own unique street food and a large
percentage of population relishes on these delicacies. The most popular street food in India
is panipuri. The present study undertaken to assess the bacterial profile of masala pani and
matar sold with panipuri in Jabalpur city of Madhya Pradesh, India. Total twelve samples
from different zones of Jabalpur were aseptically collected and analysed within one hour of
procurement. Isolation, enumeration and identification of the bacteria were carried out
following the standard procedure. Result shows that the total viable count of bacteria varied
between 58.6-121.3×10-5CFU and 48-119.3×10-5CFU in all samples of masala pani and matar
respectively, this showed that almost all panipuri samples have high bacterial load of
pathogenic bacteria such as Enterobactor facellius, Salmonella sp.,
Pseudeomonasflourosence, Protease sp., Streptococcus sp., E. coli, Enterobactoraerogenous
and Klebsella pneumonia. The mean scores of total viable count (CFU) of masala pani from
four zones of Jabalpur do not differ significantly (p≤0.05) and mean scores of total viable
count (CFU) of matar from four zones of Jabalpur differ significantly (p≥0.05).thus, bacterial
profile demonstrates that the panipuri sold in Jabalpur city constitute an important
potential hazard to human health and provision of health education to the vendors improve
quality of panipuri.