Background: Fonio is an underutilized ancient West African cereal with promising nutritional, functional, structural, and thermal properties that support its potential application in value-added food products and large-scale industrial utilization. Aims: This study aimed to evalu...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2026/v25i6880
Rice quality is largely determined by its chemical composition, pasting properties, and physicochemical characteristics during cooking. Amylose content plays a key role in defining cooking quality, texture, and consumer preference. This study aimed to evaluate the chemical compos...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2025/v24i8812
The importance of producing acceptable composite instant pounded yam flour has been challenging in todays’ consumer market due to various substitutes been utilized during its production process as a way of reducing the production cost hence the need to carry out quality assessme...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2023/v22i10680
Aim: Phytochemical, proximate, and pasting qualities of weaning food processed from grains, legumes along with vegetables were examined in this study. Methods: Fermented maize, defatted soybean and carrot powder were combined at different proportions. Phytochemical, pasting, and...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2022/v21i530429
The effects of some leguminous seed flour (LSF) on the viscoelastic properties of wheat, maize and cassava flours were investigated. The aim of the work was to evaluate the effect of the LSF on the pasting characteristics of the flours. There were significant differences in the p...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2021/v20i630313
Aims: To compare the physicochemical (water, total titratable acid, amylose and amylopectin contents), functional (swelling and solubility powers) and pasting characteristics of cassava flour retted in two different ways. Study Design: Flours were produced from two cassava cultiv...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2020/v15i430160
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