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Over the past few decades, cocoa has increasingly gained spectacular attention on the global market as it continues to become one of the most lucrative and heavily traded food commodities in the world. This has led to interesting continuous increases…

Colmenero de Ledesma, Antonio.(1631) 1652. Chocolate; or, an Indian Drink. By the wise and moderate use whereof health is preserved, sickness diverted, and cured, especially the plague of the guts, vulgarly called the new Disease; fluxes,…

Setting Up Your Food Truck Business: Legalities, Setting Up Your Food Truck, Testing phase, Buyer Persona Analysis and Branding: Food Truck Business and Restaurants,# 3
Setting Up Your Food Truck Business: Legalities, Setting Up Your Food Truck,…

The extent to which roasting of depulped cocoa beans at varied roasting intensities influences the total polyphenolic content, total flavonoid content, and DPPH scavenging capacity of cocoa liquor remains underexplored. This study investigated the…

Cowpea fortification has been used to effectively improve the protein content of some traditional foods. It is however important to find out the extent to which addition of cowpea affects the desirable quality characteristics of the nutritionally…

Traditional weaning foods in developing countries are usually not packaged thus limiting their widespread use.. The application of cost-effective packaging systems which retain the quality of the foods is important.

A 3 x 2 x 2 factorial experiment with fermentation time (0, 24, 48 hours), cowpea (0 and 15%) and alkaline treatment (nixtamalized and non-nixtamalized corn) was used. The blends were dried using a cabinet drier, milled into flour and spices added…

Gender issues in agricultural technology development are focused on. In spite of a general perception of the vital role of women in agricultural production, some models and concepts still undermining this reality are identified and discussed. The…

Traditional weaning foods are made from cereals resulting in gruels of high density with viscosities not suitable for infant feeding. Reducing the bulk density in fermented weaning foods will facilitate the production of infant weaning porridges of…

Hunger and malnutrition have reached crisis proportions in much of Africa where about 200 million people are undernourished. Africa is the only region in the world to have experienced such substantial increase in the number of undernourished in the…