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Heliyon, 2022 Yam and its products can be modified during processing to reduce losses and ensure food security in the developing world. Xanthan gum (XG) and carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) were added at different concentrations to yam balls and their effect on the ...
Ebenezer Asiamah +6 more
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Psychological and Social Pain in Prediction of Suicidality as a Societal and Adult Educational Challenge [PDF]
Educaţia 21This article refers to the topic of psychological (mental/emotional) and social pain in the prediction of suicidality (suicide and its associated behaviors) as an extraordinarily complex and pressing societal and adult educational challenge.
Yuri Gimelfarb, Daniela Cojocaru
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Heliyon, 2023 This study assessed the factors affecting yam farmers' adaptation practices to climate variability in the Ejura Sekyedumase Municipality, Ghana. Primary data was collected through 160 household surveys and 8 key informant interviews.
Frank Baffour-Ata +6 more
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, 2022 Why we are facing malnutrition, infectious diseases and pandemics like COVID-19 ? We have advanced technologies to fight against diseases, disorders, pandemics, new lethal infectious diseases, and many other food & healthcare related problems. Even having such technologies as a panacea, most of the time, in most of the places of the world, we ...
BL Manjula +4 more
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Heliyon, 2021 This study investigated the effect of the addition of starch from “hawthorn” yam (Dioscorea rotundata) and “creole” yam (Dioscorea alata) at different concentrations (0.1%, 0.3%, and 0.5% w/w) on the physicochemical and sensory properties of stirred-type
Jorge Pérez +4 more
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DETERMINANTS OF YAM AGRIBUSINESS PARTICIPATION DECISIONS AMONG RURAL HOUSEHOLDS [PDF]
Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2021 Research background: Participation decisions in yam agribusiness could be one of the measures to combat hunger, poverty and enhance the income of resource-poor rural households in yam-producing areas.
Moradeyo Adebanjo OTITOJU +2 more
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Research Progress on the Browning Mechanism and Its Control Technology of Chinese Yam
Shipin gongye ke-ji, 2022 Chinese yam is a kind of food with high nutritional value. Browning is one of the main problems affecting the quality of Chinese yam during processing and storage.
Shanlin LI +4 more
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Evaluation of yam (Dioscorea rotundata) chips pre-treatment conditions (salting, sulphiting, and blanching) combined with dehydrofrozen storage for fries production [PDF]
Acta Periodica TechnologicaYam is a highly perishable commodity lacking commercial utilization, like potato for French fries production. Frozen yam chips could be a panacea for its increased utilization as fries and export commodity for Nigeria.
Jimoh Kazeem Osuolale +2 more
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Life, 2021 The Chinese yam (Dioscorea polystachya Turcz.) is an underutilized orphan tuber crop. However, in China it has been used in traditional medicine and food for centuries due to the presence of high starch, protein, fiber, and biologically active compounds.
Xiaoxuan Zeng, Dahui Liu, Luqi Huang
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Colchicine-induced variations in survival rate and morphological characteristics of water yam (Dioscorea alata) [PDF]
Ratarstvo i Povrtarstvo, 2010 The effects of 0.2% aqueous solution of colchicine on the survival rate and morphological features of five accessions of Dioscorea alata were investigated.
Ajayi Abiola T. +3 more
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