Naturally fermented soy-cheese (fermentation time: 12 h at 37oC) and soy-milk (fermentation time: 6 h at 42oC) were produced and their microflora were enumerated, isolated and identified. The dominating fermenting ...

Adequate nutrition is essential during adolescent period. Adolescence (10-19) is a transition phase between childhood and adulthood. A combination of extra nutritional demands of adolescent growth spurt and inadequate ...

Food choice is increasingly being controlled by taste, health benefit and functionality. Hibiscus Sabdariffa extracts (zobo drink) is popular, cheap and has numerous health benefits. Functional beverages include in their ...

This study evaluated raw and processed (as eaten) Conophor (Tetracarpidium conophorum) seeds for nutritional adequacy, probiotic potentials and histological safety. Freshly harvested conophor nuts were processed by cooking ...

The objective of this study was to determine the functionality of acha flour and starch in their native and modified forms and produce biscuit with a blend of the flour, mango kernel seed and soy cake flours as well as ...

The nutritional, physico-chemical and sensory properties of biofortified gari enriched with bambara groundnut flour at different supplementation levels were studied. Bambara groundnut seeds were sorted, roasted at 140 0C ...

The study aimed at evaluating the nutritional (proximate, mineral, vitamins, amino acid, and protein quality through rat assay) anti-nutritional properties, antioxidant potential, to determine the acceptability and storage ...

Many underexploited food crops with high nutritional potentials abound, hence, the utilisation of mixtures of tubers and legumes indigenous to the developing countries need should be encouraged to combat malnutrition. One ...

Rice flour was supplemented with carrot flour subjected to sun, oven and freeze drying in order to enrich the nutritional and bioactive components qualities of the rice-carrot composite flour. Experimental design was carried ...

A Metal-in-Block evaporative cooler was designed and constructed to investigate its efficiency for storage of fresh cassava roots. The study further investigated the quality of stored biofortified cassava roots in an ...