Physico-Chemical And Antioxidant Properties Of Culinary Herbs And Local Spies

This research work examined the use of cowpea for shito production, to determine the cost of the shito, to access the sensory attribute in terms of the taste, aroma and colour, to determine the overall acceptability of cowpea shito, to bring varieties of shito into the market, to determine the pr…

Digestive and gingerroot biscuits were produced from composite flour blends – cassava flour, peanut butter, wheat flour and ginger flavour in different ratio mix digestive biscuit – (50 : 50; 10 : 30 : 60 and 10 : 90 ), Ginger biscuit (10 : 25 : 60 : 5, 10 : 85 and 50 : 45 : 5) respectively. Crea…

This study was carried out on consumers acceptability on fresh and smoked catfish, using a total of 120 respondents randomly selected from Nsukka, Enugu. The study revealed that most catfish sellers were female, married and young, literates with more than ten years of marketing experiences. About…

Addressing the historical and contemporary challenge of providing sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to everyone remains a major global concern, particularly in the twenty-first century. In the East Africa region, both emerging and established technologies offer potential solutions to this pre…

Proximate analysis of Pleurotus tuberregium was determined to ascertain its nutritional composition. the sample was analysed for its moisture, crude fibre, ash, fat, protein and carbohydrate content. Using the method of AOAC. The results for the analysis showed that the materials has moisture con…

Micro organisms associated in fermentation of castor bean seeds “ogiri” (COSO) were investigated. Organisms islated include micrococcus, Bacillus and proteus. Soyabean paste was produced and divided into three portions, one portion was inoculated with the pureculture from caster beanseed “ogiri” …

Fix locally sourced citrus fruit (orange citrus sinners) tangerine (citrus reticulate) lemon citrus lemoni) (Lime (citrus aurantifolis) and Grape (citrus paradist) were mixed together to produce mixed fruit drink. Different ratios of orange, tangerine lemon, lime and Grape fruit juice in this ord…

Biscuit was produced from malted sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) and wheat flour blend. Sorghum grains were sorted, steeped in water, germinated and kilned. Four samples of biscuit were produced using sorghum and wheat in the following ratios samples A; 30: 70, sample B; 50:50, sample C; 60:40, sample …

This study was designed to evaluate the potentials of sweet cassava variety TMS 4(2) 1425being manihet palmata and bitter varieties TMS 30572, TMS 30555, and NR 8082 being Manihot utilisima Crantz flours used in the production of fufu,in carrying out the process the root was weighed before and af…

Microorganisms associated with pawpaw and watermelon fruits sold in bwari area council were investigated. Evaluation of the possible bacteria and fungi on the fruit samples was carried out based on standard microbiological methods. Bacterial count ranged from 4.2 x 105 to 1.4 x 106cfu/g for pawpa…