The research sought to investigate the functional properties of starches obtained from four Nigerian root and tubers, yam and sweet potato varieties, in order to facilitate their exploitation as substitute raw material for the local food and pharmaceutical manufacturing industry....
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2020/v14i430136
The suitability of sorghum and millet grains in the production of malt-based syrups was determined. The grains were steeped for 50 h, germinated for 5 days at room temperature and were kilned for 48h to produce the malts. Mashing was carried out by three-stage decoction method an...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2020/v14i430134
Industrial processing of the fruit juice is responsible for the changes in some quality attributes. Thermal treatment is a most applicable operation for any processing and it affects the physicochemical and antioxidant properties of the juice. This study was conducted to observe...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2020/v14i330133
Starch was extracted from potato wastes and its peels to prepare bio-degradable films using glycerol and sorbitol at various concentrations of 35%, 45% and 55 (w/w) of dry starch. The properties of films prepared with modification techniques (hydrothermal treatment (HTT) and acid...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2020/v14i330132
Introduction: Communication between intestine-brain axis is complex and uses different pathways. This communication forms a bidirectional axis whose equilibrium depends on the composition of the microbial community that inhabits the intestines. This ecosystem has a modulator role...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2020/v14i330131
The research is aimed at adding value to sweet potato based biscuits using underutilized crops such as cashew nuts. The objective of the study was to add value to sweet potato based biscuits, the sweet potato was processed into flour; while the cashew nuts was unroasted cashew nu...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2020/v14i330130
Melon (Colocynthis citrullus L.) is a widely cultivated and consumed oil-seed in West Africa. Its seeds deteriorate quickly in storage due to microbial attack introduced during the shelling stage of processing. Aim: This study investigated and compared the microbial and proximate...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2020/v14i330129
Wasiu Awoyale, Robert Asiedu, William K. C. Kawalawu, Adebayo Abass, Busie Maziya-Dixon, Abibatu Kromah, Michael Edet & Suba Mulbah·Asian Food Science Journal·2020
Different cassava varieties are available in Liberia, but there is little knowledge of their product suitability. Hence, the need to assess the potentials of these varieties to produce gari and fufu flour. The two products from ten improved and two local cassava varieties were ch...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2020/v14i230128
Specialty condiment (ogiri) was produced from seeds of soybean (Glycine max) and fluted pumpkin (Telfairia occidentalis) by spontaneous moist solid substrate fermentation of their pre-processed mash. The two samples coded FSBM and FFPM respectively were evaluated for nutritional...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2020/v14i230126
Pedah is one of the fermented fish products with the help of microorganisms in controlled conditions by soaking the salt solution for a certain time. The types of fish made pedah are mackerel (Rastrelliger sp.) and Scad (Decapterus sp.). So the selection of Patin Jambal (Pangasiu...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2020/v14i230125