Complementary foods are crucial for infants´ nutritional development and they play a vital role in bridging nutritional gaps during weaning after exclusive breastfeeding for six months. Numerous infants in developing countries particularly Nigeria, suffer from protein-energy maln...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2026/v25i2851
Aderonke Adenike Oladebeye, Abraham Olasupo Oladebeye, Mohammed Suleiman & Yemisi Adefunke Jeff-Agboola·Asian Food Science Journal·2023
Aim: The need for formulating and developing smart baby-led weaning (BLW) foods from millet, soybean and ripe banana flour blends as alternative complementary foods inspired this study, which had no documentation in literatures. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Food Tec...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2023/v22i7644
Complementary foods were formulated from blends of maize, cowpea and orange fleshed sweet potatoes (OFSP). Five different blends of flour were formulated with the substitution with cowpea flour at 5-30%, and OFSP substitution at 5-20% while 100% maize flour was used as the contro...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2023/v22i2619
Different blends of cereal-based complementary foods were formulated from millet/maize, soybean and yellow monkey kola flours. Seven blends were formulated from maize (Zea mays) flour, partially defatted soybean (Glycine max) flour and monkey kola (Cola parchycarpa) flour while s...
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Research Article10.9734/AFSJ/2018/44899