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Background Plant foods have gained tremendous consideration as a significant progenitor of bioactive substances with several therapeutic advantages over synthetic drugs.
Aanuoluwapo Elizabeth Adeyemo +3 more
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Snack bar was a solid rod-shaped food, made from a mixture of dry ingredients such as cereals, nuts, grains and fruits which can be consumed as a snack. Binder is needed in making a snack bar. Puree can be used as binder in making snack bar. The snack
George Hutapea +2 more
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Gender-Disaggregated Analysis of Sweetpotato Cultivation and Consumption in the Volta Region of Ghana. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Women and men play a significant role in the cultivation and utilization of food crops. This study highlights the influence of gender on the cultivation and consumption of sweetpotato. The study employed cross‐sectional purposive and simple random sampling techniques to select 300 respondents from three district capitals of the Volta region of
Effah-Manu L +4 more
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Evaluation of nutritional and functional properties of plantain (Musa paradisiaca L.) and tigernut (Cyperus esculentus L.) flour blends for food formulations [PDF]
Open Access Journal; Published online: 28 Sept 2017Some individuals are intolerant to gluten of wheat and other cereals like oats, rye and barley used for food formulations and this intolerance seriously impairs intestinal absorption.
Adebowale, A.A. +4 more
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In the determination of microbial load, isolation and characteristics in oven-dried and sun-dried plantain flours, and plantain flour porridge; the flours were prepared by sun-drying and oven drying before grinding and sifting, while the porridge was prepared by boiling.
Bills, U. S. +2 more
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Metal Contamination Of Foods and Drinks Consumed in Ota, Nigeria [PDF]
Food consumed in Ota, Nigeria are prone to contamination with environmental metal pollutants. The concentrations of lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), nickel (Ni), mercury (Hg), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn) and zinc (Zn) were determined in some commonly consumed ...
Durodola, B. M. +4 more
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Wheat based composite flour was substituted with plantain and tigernut flours in order to enhance its protein, fibre, minerals, antioxidants and resistant starch contents.
Y.A. Bamigbola +2 more
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A review of raw plantain size reduction
Size reduction is very fundamental and crucial to (and enhances subsequent operations in) postharvest processing of raw plantain into storable and value-added products.
Emmanuel Olatunji OLUTOMILOLA
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Cellulosic materials as natural fillers in starch-containing matrix-based films: a review [PDF]
In this work, the different cellulosic materials, namely cellulose and lignin are analyzed. In addition, the starch-containing matrices (isolated starch and flour) reinforced with cellulosic materials to be used in packaging applications are described ...
Alvarez, Vera Alejandra +1 more
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Resistant starch formation in unripe plantain flour under two different drying conditions [PDF]
Unripe plantain is a potential commodity for producing flour with low digestibility due to its dietary fiber and resistant starch content, thus more beneficial for health such as for blood glucose control and blood lipid profile improvement.
Wulan Siti Narsito +4 more
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