[{"id": "ajfsoa-104", "words": "5359", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Asiamah, Kashez; Nulty, Awuah; J, Kubby", "title": "The impact of rural Agricultural development projects on agricultural products in preferred area of Benin", "date": "2014", "keywords": "adja; area; development; food; impact; nagot; productivity; projects; study", "summary": "The results suggest the need to improve management of agricultural projects to enhance their impact. The IP are indicators of agricultural projects at a beneficiary level.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-109", "words": "3839", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "W, Tawongsa; Abdelmoula, Adran", "title": "Rheological categorization and quality of Large-scale marketable mayonnaise using back extrusion", "date": "2014", "keywords": "extrusion; fat; food; force; light; mayonnaise; properties; texture", "summary": "Since mayonnaise rheological properties are related to the formulation, process parameters, the storage temperature and commercial mayonnaises present differentiated formulations analysis performed in distinct temperatures demonstrates such differences in its rheology. Mayonnaise rheological properties are related with formulation, process parameters and storage temperature.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-111", "words": "4199", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "E, Tahmasebi; Bozorgi, Moein; Khukhan, Keyvan", "title": "A kinetic Study in the changes of SDS-PAGE profile of whey proteins during storage at different temperatures", "date": "2014", "keywords": "acid; food; proteins; samples; solubility; whey", "summary": "Majority of studies on whey protein solubility and functionality are focused on elevated temperatures. The combined effects of thermal treatment and pH have profound effect on whey protein solubility.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-116", "words": "2464", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Naeem, Habib; Haider, Hasnain; B., Yaseen", "title": "Study on the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibiting properties of the terpenoid extract of (Crataegus monogyna)", "date": "2014", "keywords": "ace; acid; captopril; enalaprilat; lbp; lisinopril; molecules", "summary": "The results obtained from this study consequently open new avenues for the rational design of ACE inhibitors based on the triterpenic scaffold. These were PDB IDs 1UZF (Natesh et al., 2004), 1UZE (Natesh et al., 2004) and 1O86 (Natesh et al., 2003), describing the bound co-ordinates of testicular ACE and the small molecules captopril (resolution 2.00 \u01fa), enalaprilat (resolution 1.82 \u01fa) and lisinopril (resolution 2.00 \u01fa).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-119", "words": "5727", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Singh, Jumi; Vadewki, Raj; P, Vijay", "title": "A provincial study of food safety measures in Bundelkhand region in India", "date": "2012", "keywords": "accessibility; area; availability; bundelkhand; districts; food; food availability; food security; population; security; stability", "summary": "To examine the overall scenario of food availability in UP Bundelkhand for the year 2008 the variables taken are; food grain availability (kg per head per annum), calorie availability (calorie per head per day) and livestock availability (population per livestock) (Table 1). Key words: Food availability, food stability, food accessibility, food security, Bundelkhand.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-139", "words": "9756", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Jabulani, Ncanywa", "title": "A review of the food security and poverty issues in South Africa", "date": "2014", "keywords": "africa; agriculture; cape; countries; development; farm; food; health; income; levels; people; poverty; resources; sector; security; smallholder; south; south africa; world", "summary": "The composition and persistence of poverty in rural South Africa, an entitlements approach to poverty. Perhaps, this could be the entry point that the government, agricultural economists and other stakeholders can utilize to push for smallholder agricultural development to create employment and alleviate rural poverty.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-140", "words": "3756", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Mhembere, Chimony; Salau, Stewart; Mapeto, Tatender", "title": "Effects of types of treatments of lead and cadmium on soil bioavailability: A potential human risk", "date": "2014", "keywords": "metal; napus; soil; treatments; uptake; wastewater; yield", "summary": "Soil bioavailable Pb in mixed treatments significantly correlated positively with uptake by B. napus. Yield was significantly correlated negatively with soil bioavailable Pb and Cd as well as metal uptake.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-142", "words": "4539", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Nwabueze, Okocha; Nwafor, Chinedu", "title": "Extractive performance of solvents on the indices of African breadfruit (Treculia africana) seed oil", "date": "2014", "keywords": "acid; african; breadfruit; breadfruit seed; extraction; food; hexane; oil; seed; seed oil; solvents; values", "summary": "African breadfruit seed oil yield and Vitamins Oil Yield and vitamin content (A as carotenoid and E) of African breadfruit seed oil extracted with different sol- vents are shown in Table 2. This range of specific gravity of African breadfruit seed oil compares with the ranges reported for palm oil (0.91) and ground- nut oil (0.84) (Ebuehi, et al., 2006) and 0.91 for pumpkin (Curcubita pepo) seed oil (Ihediohanma et al., 2006).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-144", "words": "8814", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Aotunex Ihemanma, Aotunexx; Ebutex, Chigaemezu", "title": "Reliable ways in advancing employee motivation in fast food outlets in Cape Town, South Africa", "date": "2014", "keywords": "employees; food; food industry; industry; job; management; managers; motivation; needs; performance; staff; time; work; workers; workplace", "summary": "Fast food employees work long hours for low pay (Schlosser, 1998). It is the amount of training that is provided to fast food employees that enhances their performance rather than the quality or quantity of education achieved prior to employment (Sheridan et al., 1997).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-146", "words": "3062", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Bedan, Kabatila; Brayant, Kavat; E., Mishflo", "title": "The effect of soil chemical properties on basic gum composition", "date": "2014", "keywords": "arabic; gum; laisamis; logologo; merrile; nitrogen; senegal; soil", "summary": "Logologo and Laisamis had similar trend in soil carbon, soil nitrogen and gum nitrogen, while Merille and Seereolipi varied in soil carbon, soil nitrogen, gum carbon and gum nitrogen (Figure 3). Soil nitrogen (0.30, 0.4 and 0.8%) in Merrile, Laisamis and Logologo were significantly correlated (p < 0.05) to the nitrogen (0.31 - 0.32%) in gum, while soil N (0.3%) in Sereolipi was not significantly correlated with gum nitrogen (0.23%) and was significantly lower than those of Merrile, Laisamis and Logologo (0. 31, 0.32 and 0.32%).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-147", "words": "5359", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Asiamah, Kashez; Nulty, Awuah; J, Kubby", "title": "The impact of rural Agricultural development projects on agricultural products in preferred area of Benin", "date": "2014", "keywords": "adja; area; development; food; impact; nagot; productivity; projects; study", "summary": "The results suggest the need to improve management of agricultural projects to enhance their impact. The IP are indicators of agricultural projects at a beneficiary level.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-148", "words": "5131", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Jumi, Singh; Vadewk, Raj; P, Vijay", "title": "Biotechnological Agriculture in relations to property rights ", "date": "2014", "keywords": "agreement; biotechnology; countries; development; international; iprs; new; patent; plant; property; protection; research; rights; varieties", "summary": "These rights are most often referred to as plant variety rights or plant breeders rights (PBRs). Even though plant variety protection developed separately from patent protection and is considered to be more appropriate for the particular nature and characteristics of agricultural innovation, higher levels of protection have raised similar concerns as those in the patent field.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-149", "words": "7080", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "O, Harshanti; Bukar, Abubakar", "title": "Control measures in Nigerian traditional food manufacture: some Useful properties of extruded millet-soybean for the \u2018fura\u2019", "date": "2014", "keywords": "composition; extrusion; feed; feed moisture; flour; food; moisture; screw; soybean; speed; starch; viscosity; water; wsi", "summary": "Effect of extrusion variables on WAI, WSI and VISCOSITY of samples. Extrudate photographic responses The effects of extrusion variables (feed composition, feed moisture and screw speed) can be seen as shown in Plates 1-15.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-150", "words": "2360", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Ibrahim, Bello; Dave, Mohammed", "title": "Agroforestry Concepts and practices in Maintainable land use systems in Nigeria", "date": "2014", "keywords": "agroforestry; farming; land; practices; production; systems; trees; use", "summary": "This paper highlighted Agroforestry practices and concepts in sustainable land use systems. The objective of this paper is to highlight the importance and concepts of Agroforestry as a veritable tool in sustainable land use systems.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-151", "words": "4186", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Martins, Okojie; Osaro, Ekiosa; Duke, Yobosa", "title": "Gender Limitation in Agricultural land access: Effects for food security in Ondo State, Nigeria", "date": "2014", "keywords": "access; female; food; land; male; respondents; state; study; women", "summary": "Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org \u00a9 International Scholars Journals Full Length Research Paper Gender Limitation in Agricultural land access: Effects for food security in Ondo State, Nigeria Okojie Martins, Ekiosa Osaro and Yobosa Duke Department of Agriculture, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria. This study assessed gender discrimination in agricultural land access: Implications for food security in Ondo State Nigeria.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-152", "words": "2733", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "J. A. V, Famurewa; F A, Akinmuyisitan", "title": "Prediction of drying model and determination of effects of drying temperature on Mucilage and Vitamin-C contents of Fluted Jute (Corchorus capsularis) Leaves", "date": "2014", "keywords": "corchorus; drying; food; leaves; model; page", "summary": "Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org \u00a9 International Scholars Journals Full Length Research Paper Prediction of drying model and determination of effects of drying temperature on Mucilage and Vitamin-C contents of Fluted Jute (Corchorus capsularis) Leaves Famurewa J. A. V and Akinmuyisitan F A Department of Food Science and Technology, Federal University of Technology, Akure. The objectives of this study therefore are to investigate the effect of drying temperatures on the viscosity of Corchorus capsularis and to predict the mathematical drying models, at four different temperatures, that best describe the drying phenomenon of \u2018ewedu\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-154", "words": "2946", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Abioye; F, V", "title": "Proximate composition and sensory properties of moringa fortified yellow maize-ogi", "date": "2015", "keywords": "content; food; leaves; maize; moringa; ogi; powder; samples", "summary": "This reveals that fortification of yellow maize ogi with moringa oleifera leaf is possible and this will also enhance the nutritional status of the populace especially the children and adult who consume ogi as breakfast foods. Properties of ogi powders made from normal fortified and opaque-2 corn.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-156", "words": "4689", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Massri, Mohammed; Labban, Louay", "title": "Comparison of different types of fertilizers on growth, yield and quality properties of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)", "date": "2015", "keywords": "chemical; control; difference; fertilizer; group; manure; poultry; sheep", "summary": "Key words: Audrey, shapah, manure fertilizers, chemical fertilizers, productivity, watermelon. John et al. (2004) had advocated for an integral use of organic manure and inorganic fertilizers for the supply of adequate quantities of nutrients to improve crop productivity while minimizing environmental impact from fertilizer use.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-158", "words": "3108", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "N. Bede, Evelyn", "title": "A study of the variation in the composition of \u2018chin chin\u2019 and its acceptability among consumers", "date": "2015", "keywords": "chin; chin chin; egg; peanut; samples; values", "summary": "peanut peanut peanut peanut peanut Samples A B C D E F Content with without with 5% with 10% with 15% with 20% Variation egg egg/peanut peanut peanut peanut", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-159", "words": "5635", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Olubukola O, Babalola", "title": "A study of two isolated lactococcal strains with respect to bacteriocin-concentrations", "date": "2015", "keywords": "acid; concentration; food; growth; lactis; microbiol; nisin; strains; wara; wo81", "summary": "Nisin concentration decreased with a subsequent increase in the incubation period. Therefore, the objective of this study was to characterize nisin concentration among the isolates from nunu and wara.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-160", "words": "3630", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "A. M, Elmahmood,; J. H., Doughari,", "title": "A study of the risks and microbial quality of kunun-zaki beverage for the consuming public", "date": "2015", "keywords": "cfu; food; kunun; samples; zaki", "summary": "zaki samples were obtained as freshly formulated beverages from 10 different local hawkers in Girei town, Adamawa State, Nigeria and screened for microbial contamination. The high water content coupled with crude methods of production and packaging under improper sanitary condi- tions predisposes Kunun- zaki to microbial contamination.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-162", "words": "3443", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "W. A, Abia; F. A, Numfor; F, Tcheuntue", "title": "A study of the energy value and nutrient content of waterfufu and eru\u201d consumed by Cameroonians", "date": "2015", "keywords": "cameroon; diet; energy; eru; food; nutrient; protein; value; waterfufu", "summary": "Energy value and nutrient content of \u201cwaterfufu and eru\u201d (a popular Cameroonian food). A study of the energy value and nutrient content of waterfufu and eru\u201d consumed by Cameroonians Abia W. A. 1* , Numfor F. A 2 , Wanji S. 1 and Tcheuntue F. 2 1 Biochemistry Programme, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, University of Buea.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-164", "words": "2966", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "O. A, Olaoye; A. A, Onilude; C. O, Oladoye", "title": "A study of breadfruit processing and its performance in biscuit production", "date": "2015", "keywords": "biscuit; breadfruit; flour; food; wheat", "summary": "Accepted 23 March, 2015 Breadfruit was processed into flour and used to supplement wheat flour, in the percentages of 0, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25, for biscuit production. Key words: Breadfruit flour, wheat flour, proximate composition, composite biscuit, sensory evaluation, aerobic plate count.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-165", "words": "4584", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Xu, Wentao; Huang, Kunlun; Deng, Aike; Zha, Baiqiang; Zhao, Heng; Li, Yingcong; Liang, Zhihong; Luo, Yunbo; Zhao, Heng", "title": "Immunoaffinity column as cleanup tool for an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay of ractopamine detection in various tissues of swine", "date": "2015", "keywords": "column; elisa; glycine; iac; ractopamine; rct; samples", "summary": "The matrix was incubated with 2 mL of RCT solution (0.25 mg/mL) and 2 m of OVA (0.25 mg/mL) for 40 min under constant rotation at 4 o C. After 7 times washing, the column was eluted with 0.2 M glycine buffer (2 mL) at various pH conditions (pH 5.5, 5.0, 4.5, 4.0, 3.5, 3.0 and 2.5). Key words: Purification, ractopamine, swine, immunoaffinity column, enzyme linked immunosorbent assay.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-166", "words": "5432", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "Ali , Ali Ait; Rharbi, Nadia; Akharbache, Houda; Sedki, Said", "title": "A study of live prey\u2019s enrichment with three different diets and their effects on survival and growth of common dentex larvae", "date": "2015", "keywords": "artemia; dentex; dha; enrichment; growth; larvae", "summary": "The results obtained during this experiment for Artemia DHA content (between 0.40 \u00b1 0.00 and 8.60 \u00b1 0.69 mg g -1 of dry weight) were much lower than those reported by Triantaphylidis et al. (1995) and which are included between 13.7 and 25.1 mg g -1 of dry weight and those cited by Kyungmin et al. (2000) and which are included between 22.7 and 37 mg g -1 of dry weight. The necessity to introduce Artemia in food for the development of marine fish larviculture stimulated the research efforts to improve the nutritional value of Artemia's nauplii (Watanabe et al., 1978; L\u00e9ger et al., 1987).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-167", "words": "3342", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Ayernor, G. S.; Ocloo, F. C. K.", "title": "Physico-chemical changes and diastatic activity associated with germinating paddy rice", "date": "2015", "keywords": "content; germination; grains; malting; paddy; rice; starch; time; weight", "summary": "Malt yields and malting loss The yield and loss of malted paddy rice grains are pre- sented in Figure 1. Yield and loss of malted paddy rice grains.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-168", "words": "7107", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Naviglio, Daniele; Pizzolongo, Fabiana; Romano, Raffaele; Ferrara, Lydia", "title": "A study of solid-liquid extractive techniques and an innovative solid-liquid extraction technology using the Naviglio Extractor", "date": "2015", "keywords": "alcohol; et al; extraction; lemon; liquid; liquor; maceration; naviglio; peel; process; solid; technique; water", "summary": "This paper has two aims: firstly as an innovative technology of solid- liquid extraction, the Naviglio Extrac- tor (Naviglio, 2000; Naviglio, 2003) is briefly introduced and compared to the current techniques of extraction, as far as extraction times are concerned, the extractive effi- ciency and quality of the extracts, particularly with maceration; the other to compare the lemon liquor produced in the traditional manner with that produced using the Naviglio Extractor, which allows the total reco- very of ethanol from the used up lemon peels. Disposing of used lemon peels At the end of the process of maceration, used lemon peels, submitted to the analysis of alcoholic content by distillation in vapour stream, showed a ethanol content of about 15% (v/v) and then they were not disposable as a manure; while the peels deriving from the process of production of lemon liquor using the Naviglio Extractor were lacking in ethanol and then they can be disposed as manure or employed as feed after a drying process at room temperature or in hot air.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-169", "words": "3021", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Toyosaki, T", "title": "A study of the effects of peroxides on allergic reactions ", "date": "2015", "keywords": "bread; dough; fermentation; figure; hydroperoxide; ige; ovomucoid; proteins", "summary": "These facts strongly suggested that the addition of hydroperoxide affected antigen-antibody reaction of dough crude protein. In con- trast, crude protein solution extracted from dough added hydroperoxide decreased precipitin ring.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-170", "words": "2562", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Goswam, T. K.; Gupta, S. K", "title": "Detection of dilution of milk with the help of glass transition temperature by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)", "date": "2015", "keywords": "content; dsc; food; glass; milk; temperature; transition; water", "summary": "The addition of sugars (glucose, froctose and sucrose) also showed a significant change in glass transition temperature. Key words: Milk, glass transition temperature, differential scanning calorimetry, adulteration.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-171", "words": "6727", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Hegazy, Sedki", "title": "A study of the detection of Salmonella heidelberg in some Egyptian foods", "date": "2015", "keywords": "et al; food; growth; health; heidelberg; heidelberg isolates; human; infections; isolates; poultry; resistance; s r; s s; salmonella; salmonella heidelberg; w +; zhao s", "summary": "C e fa z o li n P o ly m x in B T e tr a c y c li n e A m ox yc ill in cl av ul an ic ac id (a ug m en tin )2 :1 C h lo ra m p h e n ic o l B a c it ra c in A m p ic il li n G e n ta m ic in C e fo n ic id C e ft a z id im e K a n a m y c in P e n ic il li n G S ul ph am et ho xo zo le /T ri m et ho pr im 1 9: 1 N it ro fu ra n ti o n S tr e p to m y c in s 1 s s s s s s s s s s s s s S s s s s s s s s s s s s s s S s s s s s s s s s s s s s s S s s s s s s s s s s s s s s S s s s s s s s s s s s s r 2 s S s s s s s s s s s s s s s s S r s s s s s s s s s s s s s S s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s r s s s s s s s s s s r s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s (1%), nalidixic acid (1.0%), and trimethoprim- amikacin, ceftriaxone, and ciprofloxacin (Zhao et al., sulfamethoxazole (0.7%). The foods were examined to detect Salmonella heidelberg.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-172", "words": "3687", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "N.A, Obeta; F. U, Ugwuona; Q.A., Edward", "title": "Effect of processing on hemagglutinin activity of lectin extract from selected green vegetables (Vernonia amygdalina, Gnetum africanum, Petrocarpus soyauxil and Telifera occidentalis)", "date": "2016", "keywords": "+ +; activity; agglutination; blood; lectin; vegetables", "summary": "The blood specifity of the different blood groups was observed in the variation of lectins activities in a0, a1 and a2. In blood group O, agglutinating activity was lost and at 100 0 C there was total destruction of lectins except for blood group AB that showed slight agglutination at a0.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-173", "words": "6970", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Deep, Nonini David; O. Gurinder, Paul; Ruto Chadha, Williams; Roy Odinga, Ezekiel", "title": "Microbiological and physico-chemical quality of raw milk from two smallholder dairy farmer\u2019 groups, Kenya", "date": "2016", "keywords": "cooler; count; dairy; food; kenya; levels; milk; production; quality; route; samples; tanker; test; total; tvbc; water", "summary": "This measured by titration whereby 3 to 4 drops of 0.5% phenolphthalein were added in 9 ml of milk sample in a beaker on a white tile and titrated against 0.1 equivalents/litre NaOH with constant shaking of the milk until a permanent colour change (pink) was observed. In Table 4, the overall mean log10 for total bacterial count in both locations was 8.078, 8.187, 8.305 and 8.462 TVBC log10 CFU/ ml for milk samples collected directly from the can composite, route composite, cooler (bulk) and upon arrival at the processing plant (tanker), respectively.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-174", "words": "3502", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "C. Macky, Abdoulaye; G. Diouf, Baaba; H. Ousmane, Patrick; Abdou Sembene, Leopold; Keita Cisse, Youssou", "title": "Nutritional composition of M. senegalense in order to increase the value of this macroalgal resource for economic development", "date": "2016", "keywords": "composition; content; food; iodine; mg/100; samples; seaweeds; senegalense; species; vitamin", "summary": "Although M. senegalense is considered as a rich source of iodine, the FDA and other world dietary guidance programs warn that consumption of excess iodine rich seaweeds could be dangerous for health (Brownlee et al., 2012; Leung and Braverman, 2014). For biochemical analysis, three batches of M. senegalense samples were targeted.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-175", "words": "3518", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Orton Mponda, Tomika; Fisher Khumbo, Patrick; Robert Mabedi, Peter", "title": "Vitamin A losses in a supply chain of fortified food vehicles which comprised two brands of vegetable cooking oil and maize flour", "date": "2016", "keywords": "cooking; flour; food; maize; malawi; oil; samples; standard; sunlight; vitamin", "summary": "Statistical analysis showed significant losses (p<0.05) in vitamin A after the samples were exposed to sunlight. Key words: Fortification, vitamin A, supply chain, sunlight, vegetable cooking oil, maize flour.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-176", "words": "3153", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "El-Aragi, G.M; Abedel Rahman, Y. M.", "title": "Effect of hybrid gas-liquid electrical discharge on liquid foods (milk)", "date": "2016", "keywords": "discharge; electric; energy; field; liquid; milk; pulse; time; treatment; voltage", "summary": "The electrical circuit for production of high voltage pulses is based on discharging the capacitor into the liquid sample inside of the reaction chamber. Pulsed high voltage discharge generates high electric field intensities ,which is considered superior to traditional heat treatment of foods because it avoids, or greatly reduces, the detri- mental changes of the sensory and physical properties of foods (Quass, 1997).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-177", "words": "2825", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Gyedu- Akoto, E; Oduro, I; Amoah, F. M; Oldham, J. H.; Ellis, W. O; OpokuAmeyaw, K.; Asante, F.; Bediako, S.", "title": "Quality estimation of cashew gum in the production of chocolate pebbles", "date": "2016", "keywords": "arabic; cashew; chocolate; gum; gums; pebbles; products", "summary": "Due to the limited supply and high cost of gum Arabic, cashew gum (CG) was assessed as a quick coating agent in the production of chocolate pebbles, using gum from both young and mature cashew trees. Pebbles produced with cashew gum compared favourably with that produced with gum Arabic.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-178", "words": "4388", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Bih Achu, Mercy; Fokou, Elie; Tchi\u00e9gang, Clerg\u00e9; Fotso, Martin; Mbiapo Tchouanguep, Felicit\u00e9", "title": "A study of atherogenic property of oils extracted from Cucumeropsis mannii", "date": "2016", "keywords": "acid; cholesterol; corn; levels; mannii; oil; oils; palm; rats; sativus", "summary": "However, these results show that these egusi oils can be good edible oils (do not cause hypertriglyceridaemia) because their TG levels which are 75 in C. mannii oil and 79.4 mg/dl in C. sativus oil rats, are far below 150 mg/dl, the borderline level of TG, above which the person has hypertriglyceridaemia (Randox Assayed Multisera, 2004b). C. sativus and C. mannii oils have high levels of polyun- saturated fatty acids, PUFA (39.3% in C. mannii oil and 62.2% in C. sativus oil) as in corn oil (58.5%) while palm oil has a low level (8.5%) (Table 3).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-179", "words": "2702", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "A.O, Obadina,; O.B, Oyewole; T.M, Awojobi,", "title": "Effect of steeping time on the physico-chemical, nutritional quality and consumer acceptability of kunnun-zaki", "date": "2016", "keywords": "content; kunun; steeping; time; zaki", "summary": "The protein content increased between 12 and 48 h steeping time. In general, a gradual increase was observed in trend of protein with steeping time.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-180", "words": "6479", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Maage, Amund; Toppe, Jogeir; Steiner-Asiedu, Mathilda; AsibeyBerko, Ebenezer; Lied, Einar", "title": "A survey of the iodine content of school-children diets fortified with marine fish", "date": "2017", "keywords": "bolgatanga; children; content; deficiency; fish; food; ghana; goitre; intervention; iodine; sekoti; status; study; tsh", "summary": "Iodine deficiency is the single most important cause of preventable mental handicap in the world by the turn of the century (WHO/UNICEF/ICCIDD, 2001). In 1992 United Nations put forward a plan to eradicate iodine deficiency as a major health problem within the year of 2001 (FAO/WHO, 1992) through increasing: 1) iodine fortification of foods and food ingredients such as salt, water and flour; 2) distribution of iodine capsules in areas where IDD is severe, 3) use of iodine rich nutrients, like seafood, and decreasing the consumption of goitrogens.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-181", "words": "4708", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "N. Enujiugha, Victor; T. Akanbi, Charles", "title": "Evaluation of canned fermented oil bean seed slices during ambient storage", "date": "2016", "keywords": "bean; brown; enujiugha; months; oil; samples; sauce; storage; ugba", "summary": "Key words: fermented oil bean seeds, canning, quality attributes, storage. The values obtained after 1 month ambient storage agree with the value (1.57 mg/g) obtained for fermented oil bean seeds by Okafor et al Enujiugha and Akanbi 075", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-182", "words": "2698", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Gyedu-Akoto, E; Oduro, I.; Amoah, F. M.; Oldham, J. H.; Ellis, W.O.; Opoku-Ameyaw, K.; Bin Hakeem, Rasheed", "title": "A study of the physico-chemical properties of cashew tree gum", "date": "2016", "keywords": "bole; cashew; gum; gums; locations; trees; wenchi", "summary": "This study showed that CG possesses good physico-chemial properties and high levels of minerals Key words: Cashew gum, physico-chemical, gum Arabic, nutritional benefits. The predominant minerals in cashew tree gum were Ca, K, Na and Fe and their nutritional benefits is discussed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-183", "words": "4556", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Singh, Sukhcharn; Riar, C. S.; Saxena, D. C.", "title": "Evaluation of the textural and sensory properties of cookies in order to improve quality", "date": "2017", "keywords": "analysis; characteristics; cookies; dough; flour; food; sweetpotato; sweetpotato flour; table; water; wheat", "summary": "Effect of different ratios of sweetpotato flour dough on Texture profile analysis. Accepted 05 March, 2017 Textural and sensory properties of cookies were studied by supplementing various proportion of sweetpotato flour (0 - 100%) to the wheat flour.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-185", "words": "4035", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "A.A, Adebowale,; L. O, Sanni,; M.O, Onitilo,", "title": "Effect of cassava varieties and roasting methods on the chemical composition and pasting properties of tapioca grits", "date": "2016", "keywords": "cassava; grits; methods; pasting; roasting; starch; tapioca; tapioca grits; viscosity", "summary": "Pasting properties of tapioca grits from different cassava varieties and roasting methods. There are significant differences in the breakdown viscosity for tapioca grit from different cassava varieties and roasting methods (P<0.05).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-186", "words": "2612", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Deguo, Wang; Guicheng, Huo; Fugui, Wang; Yonggang, Li; Daxi, Ren", "title": "An assay for detecting foodborn Salmonella using Loop-mediated isothermal amplification", "date": "2017", "keywords": "amplification; detection; dna; lamp; method; salmonella", "summary": "Detection limit of LAMP and PCR Comparative analysis of sensitivity of Salmonella detection by LAMP and PCR was carried out using 10-fold serial dilutions of Salmonella DNA. Detection of Salmonella DNA by LAMP and PCR from artificially polluted raw milk.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-189", "words": "3317", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "B. I. O, Ade-Omowaye,; B. A, Akinwande,; I. F, Bolarinwa,; A.O., Adebiyi", "title": "A study of the composition, physico-chemical and viscoelastic properties of flour and sensory properties of bread", "date": "2017", "keywords": "bread; dough; flour; properties; tigernut; wheat", "summary": "Preparation of the various flours blends Flour blends containing varying proportions of tigernut flour (10 - 50%) together with wheat flour were prepared by mixing required amounts of respective flours. Conclusion Inclusion of tigernut flour in wheat flour at levels of 10 to 50% resulted in notable increase in fibre and ash con- tents while protein content decreased.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-191", "words": "3557", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Youssif, F. M.; Hassan, T.; Mohammed, O. S. A.", "title": "A study of the level of arsenic in serum, urine, bile and tissues of goats and camels infected with Trypanosoma evansi", "date": "2017", "keywords": "arsenic; camels; cymelarsan; dose; goats; group; tissues", "summary": "The mean of arsenic in serum of T. evansi infected camels and treated with single or multiple doses of Cymelarsan Nubian goats and one-humped camels infected with T. evansi. Cymelarsan R in milk and meat was measured by determination of the total arsenic in infected camels in Kenya using recommended route (Sones, 1991).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-193", "words": "5578", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "S. Guehi, Tagro; D. Yao, N\u2019Dri; P. Manizan, Niamien; R. Nevry, Koffi; B. Koffi, Louis; M. Konan, Yao", "title": "A study of fungal profiles of cocoa produced in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire in order to discover whether toxigenic and pathogenic moulds are present", "date": "2017", "keywords": "beans; brown; cocoa; cocoa beans; content; fermentation; food; fungi; moisture; mouldy; percentage; purple; quality; samples; soubr\u00e9", "summary": "Differences in mould counts were detected in cocoa beans according to the producing regions; cocoa from Al\u00e9p\u00e9 was most contaminated by moulds. Cocoa beans are an important source of cocoa powder and food worldwide and constitute an inexpensive fat source and are the principal raw material of chocolate from Africa and both Central and South America (Tafuri et al., 2004).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-197", "words": "4563", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Ugochukwu Nwabueze, Titus; Sunday Okocha, Kalu", "title": "A study of the effectiveness of polar and non polar solvents in African breadfruit seed oil extraction", "date": "2017", "keywords": "acid; african; breadfruit; breadfruit seed; extraction; food; hexane; oil; seed; seed oil; solvents; values", "summary": "African breadfruit seed oil yield and Vitamins Oil Yield and vitamin content (A as carotenoid and E) of African breadfruit seed oil extracted with different sol- vents are shown in Table 2. This range of specific gravity of African breadfruit seed oil compares with the ranges reported for palm oil (0.91) and ground- nut oil (0.84) (Ebuehi, et al., 2006) and 0.91 for pumpkin (Curcubita pepo) seed oil (Ihediohanma et al., 2006).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-199", "words": "3319", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "R, Lekameera.; P, Vijayabaskar; Somasundaram, S. T.", "title": "Evaluation of two different solvent extracts of Colpomenia sinuosa in vitro antioxidant activity using standard procedures", "date": "2016", "keywords": "activity; antioxidant; assay; dmso; extract; figure; methanol; radical; scavenging; sinuosa", "summary": "Activity calculation was done as follows: Radical scavenging activity (%) = DPPH radical scavenging activity of methanol and DMSO dissolved diethyl ther extracts (0.25 mg/ml) compared with commercial antioxidants (2 mg/ml).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-200", "words": "6496", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Onyeaghala, A. A; Ijagbone, I. F; O. Kalu, Chima", "title": "Comparative and quality analyses of different tomato brands sold in major markets in Ibadan, Nigeria", "date": "2016", "keywords": "analysis; brands; lycopene; nigeria; paste; products; quality; sachet; series1; starch; sugar; tin; tomato; total", "summary": "It had been reported that tomato products imported into Nigeria were adulterated and substandard, but these claims have not been supported using evidence based study. Tomato products made in Nigeria were of comparable quality with those made in US and Italy (P>0.05), but those imported from China were significantly higher in total sugar and starch, but significantly lower in lycopene (P< 0.05).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-268", "words": "3350", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Abbey, L. D.; Johnson, P-N. T.; Howell, N. K.", "title": "A study of the gelatin from the skin of the flying gurnard and how it interacts with cassava starch", "date": "2017", "keywords": "cassava; fish; food; gelatin; gurnard; mixtures; skin; starch; temperature", "summary": "DSC thermograms for mixtures of gelatin of the flying gurnard gelatin and cassava starch scanned from 0 to 90\u00ebC. involved in the gelation of each sample (Arnesen and Gildberg, 2002) . Conclusions Gelation properties of the flying gurnard gelatin especially the high bloom strength and high melting point indicate that fish gelatin could be used to replace mammalian gelatins in some food applications without significantly altering the texture.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-269", "words": "5271", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Onabanjo, O. O.; Oguntona, C. R. B.; Maziya-Dixon, Bussie; Olayiwola, I. O.; Oguntona, E. B.; Dixon, A. G. O.", "title": "A study of the nutritional composition of complementary foods micronutrients improved cassava varieties", "date": "2017", "keywords": "acid; amino; cassava; children; composition; diet; fao; fatty; foods; iron; protein", "summary": "Micronutrient improved cassava varieties can be effectively used to formulate complementary food as acceptable micronutrients supplement. an infant\u2019s needs, hence, need for complementary food (WHO/UNICEF, 1998; Dewey, 2003; Dewey and Brown, 2003).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-27", "words": "4980", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "T. U, Nwabueze; F. O, Odunsi", "title": "Optimization of process conditions for cassava (Manihot esculenta) lafun production", "date": "2013", "keywords": "cassava; colour; fermentation; flour; food; inoculum; lafun; paste; process", "summary": "Lafun flour yield The percent yield of lafun flour was calculated from the weight of lafun obtained from known weight of the peeled cassava roots used (Oyewole and Ogundele, 2001). Variabilities explained by the models were low for lafun flour yield (R 2 = 0.3188) but high for photometric colour index (R 2 = 0.8098).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-270", "words": "3465", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "A. Shitandi, Anakalo; Aila, Oketch; Ottaro, Stellah; Aliong\u2019o, Leakey; Mwangi, Grace; Sharma, Harish Kumar; Joseph, Matofari", "title": "A study of the effect of heat treatment on furazolidone residues in liver and muscle tissues of chicken", "date": "2017", "keywords": "furazolidone; liver; muscle; residues; tissues; treatment", "summary": "However, in many low income coun-tries such as Kenya, monitoring of drug residues is not done (Shitandi and Sternesjo, 2001). In a previous study the potential of the B. stearothermophilus var calidolactis C953 as a test organism to detect a broad spectrum of drugs residue was demonstrated in unprocessed poultry meat (Shitandi et al., 2006).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-271", "words": "2714", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Peters, P. I. Uzor; Arisa, N. U.; Lawrence, C. O.; Osondu, N. S.; Adelaja, A.", "title": "Production of Kokoro with better nutritional content and sensory quality from maize flour ", "date": "2017", "keywords": "cake; content; flour; groundnut; kokoro; maize", "summary": "The possibility of producing acceptable Kokoro, with better nutritional content and sensory quality from maize flour mixed with either defatted groundnuts or soybeans flour was therefore investigated. There was no significant dif- ference between the products made from 1:9, 3:7 and 5:7 ratios of maize to defatted soybean cake flour in terms of taste and aroma.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-272", "words": "6847", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "E. Mweta, Davies; T. Labuschagne, Maryke; Koen, Elizma; R. M. Benesi, Ibrahim; D. K. Saka, John", "title": "Properties of the starches from cassava cultivars and cocoyam grown in Malawi in industrial utilization ", "date": "2017", "keywords": "amylose; cassava; cocoyam; content; properties; retrogradation; starch; starches; swelling; varieties; water", "summary": "Cocoyam starch granules exhibited polygonal truncated shapes and small sizes (average of 7 \u00b5m) while the cassava starch granules were rounded, irregular with oval and truncated ellipsoidal-granules with average size of 10.14 \u00b5m. The cocoyam starch gave lower values of amylose values content and paste clarity but higher phosphorus content, maximum wavelength of iodine complex absorption and blue value than cassava starches.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-273", "words": "5688", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Oluwole Steve, Ijarotimi; Mary Temitope, Oyewo; Stephen, Oladeji Babatunde", "title": "Evaluation of the chemical composition and functional properties of bambara groundnut and cooking banana", "date": "2017", "keywords": "bambara; banana; cooking; diets; flour; food; groundnut; nutrend; ogi; protein; samples; weaning", "summary": "0.04d 7.6 \uf0b1 0.01f 26.52 \uf0b1 0.06d 27.56 \uf0b1 0.17c 27.73 \uf0b1 0.57c 30.89 \uf0b1 0.08b 40.27 \uf0b1 0.13a 22.0 \uf0b1 0.00e Phosphorus (mg) 94.06 \uf0b1 0.12b 33.32 \uf0b1 0.21g 41.93 \uf0b1 0.16f 47.22 \uf0b1 0.30e 70.19 \uf0b1 0.84d 75.31 \uf0b1 0.89c 97.55 \uf0b1 0.15a 22.0 \uf0b1 0.00h Manganese (mg) - 0.93 \uf0b1 0.06 - - - - - ND Copper (mg) - 0.12 \uf0b1 0.01 - - - - - ND Aluminum (mg) - - - - - - - ND Lead (mg) - - - - - - - ND Chromium (mg) - - - - - - - ND Mercury (mg) - - - - - - - ND *The values as specified by the manufacturer. 0.02b 2.9 \uf0b1 0.06f 4.8 \uf0b1 0.02e Protein (g) 3.3 \uf0b1 0.1h 18.9 \uf0b1 0.1a 6.7 \uf0b1 0.18f 8.6 \uf0b1 0.02e 11.5 \uf0b1 0.02d 13.8 \uf0b1 0.01c 5.6 \uf0b1 0.02g 16.2 \uf0b1 0.2b Fat (g) 1.5 \uf0b1 0.1f 6.6 \uf0b1 0.2b 2.4 \uf0b10.02e 3.3 \uf0b1 0.06d 3.6 \uf0b1 0.23d 5.9 \uf0b1 0.05c 0.80 \u00b1 02g 8.5 \uf0b1 0.03a Fibre (g) 1.2 \uf0b1 0.2e 3.8 \uf0b1 0.2b 3.9 \uf0b1 0.01b 2.8 \uf0b1 0.03c 2.7 \uf0b1 0.01c 2.3 \uf0b1 0.01d 0.5 \uf0b1 0.01f 4.5 \uf0b1 0.01a Ash (g) 2.6 \uf0b1 0.2bc 3.5 \uf0b1 0.1a 3.4 \uf0b1 0.4a 3.1a \uf0b1 0.03b 2.9 \uf0b1 0.02ab 2.3 \uf0b1 0.06cd 1.7 \uf0b1 00.02d 2.7 \uf0b1 0.02bc Carbohydrate(g) 83.7 \uf0b1 0.1b 63.3 \uf0b1 0.7f 77.8 \uf0b1 0.2c 76.1 \uf0b1 0.2d 75.9 \uf0b1 0.3d 68.9 \uf0b1 0.2e 88.4 \uf0b1 0.01a 64.0 \uf0b1 0.2f CBR1 - Cooking banana + roasted bambara groundnut (90:10) CBR2 - Cooking banana + roasted bambara groundnut (80:20) CBR3 - Cooking banana + roasted bambara groundnut (70:30) CBR4 - Cooking banana + roasted bambara groundnut (60:40)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-274", "words": "2306", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Sanful, Rita E.", "title": "Promoting the use of coconut in the production of yoghurt", "date": "2017", "keywords": "coconut; coconut milk; cow; milk; samples; yoghurt", "summary": "Accepted 03 March, 2017 Yoghurt was produced from milk obtained from coconut milk and skimmed cow milk, by fermentation using starter cultures. Thus coconut milk can be used with cow milk to produce acceptable and affordable yoghurt since coconut milk is cheaper.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-275", "words": "5420", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Idowu, P. E. Akin; Asiedu, R.; Dixon, B. Maziya; Odunola, A.; Uwaifo, A.", "title": "Chemical composition of tubers of eight genotypes and the effect of domestic cooking methods on their nutritional quality", "date": "2017", "keywords": "content; food; genotypes; iron; tdc; tdc 04; tdc 95; tdc tdc; tubers; yam; zinc", "summary": "Genotype Boiled Pounded TDc TDc TDc TDc TDc TDc TDc TDc TDc TDc TDc TDc TDc TDc TDc TDc Fresh samples were used for determination of ascorbic acid and total carotenoid contents.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-276", "words": "3538", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Wardy, Wisdom; Saalia, Firibu Kwesi; Asiedu, Matilda Steiner; Budu, Agnes S.; Dedeh, Samuel Sefa", "title": "Evaluation of some physical, chemical and sensory attributes of three pineapple (Ananas comosus) varieties grown in Ghana", "date": "2017", "keywords": "cayenne; fruit; index; juice; md2; pineapple; quality; sugarloaf; varieties", "summary": "An assessment of the quality of MD2 with respect to the other varieties on the market will aid on-going resea-rch targeted at establishing the quality of MD2 pineapple in Ghana. It is against this background that this present study was carried out to assess the quality of MD2 pineapple variety with respect to the other varieties on the Ghanaian market.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-277", "words": "3999", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Mbata, T. I.; Ikenebomeh, M. J.; Ezeibe, S.", "title": "A study of functional properties, mineral content and amino acids of fermented maize flour blended with bambara groundnut", "date": "2017", "keywords": "amino; bambara; bambara groundnut; flour; food; groundnut; maize; properties; water", "summary": "A study of functional properties, mineral content and amino acids of fermented maize flour blended with bambara groundnut T. I. Mbata 1,3* , M. J. Ikenebomeh 2 and S. Ezeibe 3 1 Department of Applied Microbiology and Brewing, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria. Key words: Fermented maize flour, bambara groundnut, mineral content, functional properties.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-278", "words": "3093", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Otitoju, Grace, T. O.", "title": "A Study of the chemical composition and sensory attributes of fermented yellow maize (Zea mays) processed by two methods", "date": "2017", "keywords": "flour; food; maize; sdm; swm; udm; uwm; wet", "summary": "Preparation of gruels for organoleptic evaluation A recipe was developed and used to prepare gruel from the four samples of fermented maize flour of UDM, SDM, UWM and SWM respectively. This agreed with the observation made by (Akingbala, 1981; Olatunji, 1982; Obizoba and Atti 1991; Baiyeri, 2004) that fermented maize nutrients can be improved and conser- ved when processed adequately.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-279", "words": "4832", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "H.A., Etudaiye,; T.U, Nwabueze,; L.O, Sanni,", "title": "Evaluation of fufu flour and dough from 43 CMD resistant varieties", "date": "2018", "keywords": "cassava; cmd; flours; food; fufu; nigeria; pasting; properties; varieties; water", "summary": "Dry mattercontent (%) Energy (kcal/g) 97/4769 5.52 \u00b1 0.02 94.48 \u00b1 0.02 375.08\u00b1 0.03 99/6012 6.17 \u00b1 0.01 93.83 \u00b1 0.01 375.40\u00b1 0.04 94/0561 6.51 \u00b1 0.01 93.49 \u00b1 0.01 374.95\u00b1 0.03 97/0162 6.97 \u00b1 0.02 93.03 \u00b1 0.02 373.74\u00b1 0.02 94/0026 6.99 \u00b1 0.04 93.01 \u00b1 0.04 373.48\u00b1 0.04 96/1642 7.02 \u00b1 0.02 92.98 \u00b1 0.02 376.20\u00b1 0.12 98/0510 7.26 \u00b1 0.04 92.74 \u00b1 0.04 371.83\u00b1 0.04 98/0505 7.29 \u00b1 0.02 92.71 \u00b1 0.02 371.40\u00b1 0.02 99/3037 7.45 \u00b1 0.02 92.55 \u00b1 0.02 362.82\u00b1 0.03 98/2101 7.46 \u00b1 0.02 92.54 \u00b1 0.02 361.94\u00b1 0.06 97/4763 7.48 \u00b1 0.01 92.52 \u00b1 0.01 369.55\u00b1 0.04 97/2205 8.19 \u00b1 0.03 91.81 \u00b1 0.03 367.68\u00b1 0.12 98/1565 8.19 \u00b1 0.01 91.81 \u00b1 0.01 365.06\u00b1 0.02 92/0325 8.22 \u00b1 0.01 91.78 \u00b1 0.01 367.28\u00b1 0.06 92B/0068 8.32 \u00b1 0.02 91.68 \u00b1 0.02", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-280", "words": "6361", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Bokhar, Fardos; Mohammad Aly, Magda", "title": "A study of the fungal populations and their toxins associated with coffee bean seeds", "date": "2018", "keywords": "aflatoxin; aspergillus; coffee; extract; flavus; fungi; growth; media; mycotoxins; production; samples", "summary": "Extraction of mycotoxins from coffee bean seed samples A one hundred grams of each sample was extracted with 100 ml chloroform twice times and following the procedures described by Sorenson et al. (1967). Abdel-Hafez and Magh- raby (1992) could isolate 26 fungal species belonging to 16 genera from coffee beans samples.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-281", "words": "3619", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Obinna C, Nwinyi,; Nwodo S, Chinedu,; Olayinka O, Ajani,; Chinwe.O, Ikpo; Kehinde O, Ogunniran,", "title": "A study of the scientific basis for the traditional use of medicinal plants among the local people in Nigeria", "date": "2018", "keywords": "activity; aureus; coli; ethanol; extracts; gratissimum; guineense; ocimum; plants", "summary": "Escherichia coli 10.00 10.00 10.00 2.50 Staphylococcus aureus 10.00 2.50 10.00 10.00 (2005b) reported that inactivity of plant extracts may be due to age of plant, extracting solvent, method of extrac- tion and time of harvesting of plant materials. Ocimum gratissimum and Piper guineense present such potential of high medicinal value.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-282", "words": "2716", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "O. O, Dosumu; O. O, Oluwaniyi; G. V, Awolola; M. O., Okunola", "title": "A study of the mineral concentration of some Nigerian packed fruit juices, concentrate and local beverages", "date": "2018", "keywords": "beverages; days; drink; food; mineral", "summary": "Key words: Stability, fruit juices, beverages, concentrate, mineral content. Fruit juices are directly extracted from fruits and con- sumed without further processing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-283", "words": "4608", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Jooyandeh, Hossein", "title": "Evaluation of the effect of precipitated whey protein (PWP) and fermentation time on the quality of Iranian Lavash bread", "date": "2018", "keywords": "bread; color; crust; fermentation; food; lavash; min; protein; pwp; samples; time; whey", "summary": "In this investigation, the effects of addition of precipitated whey protein (PWP) and fermentation time on the physical properties and sensory characteristics of Lavash breads were studied. In this study, PWP were in- corporated in Lavash breads at four substitution levels 25, 50, 75, and 100% instead of water during dough making.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-285", "words": "2907", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "J. A, Adejuyitan,; E. T, Otunola,; E. A, Akande,; I. F, Bolarinwa,; F. M., Oladokun,", "title": "Effect of fermentation on the proximate composition of tigernut flour and its potentials in food formulation", "date": "2017", "keywords": "content; fermentation; flour; food; properties; tigernut; water", "summary": "Two grams of flour sample was added to 50 ml distilled water at 30 \u00b1 2\u00b0C in a 100 ml measuring cylinder. Full Length Research Paper Effect of fermentation on the proximate composition of tigernut flour and its potentials in food formulation Adejuyitan, J. A.*, Otunola, E. T., Akande, E. A., Bolarinwa, I. F. and Oladokun, F. M. Department of Food Science and EngineeringLadoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-286", "words": "3800", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "F.O, Adetuyi,; O.F, Badejo,; A.V, Ikujenlola,; S.V, Omosuli", "title": "Evaluation of the quality parameters of malted and unmalted maize and soybean blends ", "date": "2017", "keywords": "240a; capacity; flour; food; maize; p>0.05; plastic; polyethylene; soybean; storage", "summary": "The viscosity of unmalted maize flour (3.69 g/m 2 ) was significantly higher (P>0.05) than the malted maize flour (3.12 g/m 2 ). There was no significant (P>0.05) difference in the P H values of both unmalted and malted maize blends in the two storage containers throughout the storage periods.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-287", "words": "2300", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Oghenekaro, Abbot O.; Okhuoya, John A.; Akpaja, Emmanuel O.", "title": "A study of mushroom species using sawdust of different economic tree species", "date": "2018", "keywords": "bran; caco3; mushroom; sawdust; sugar; wheat", "summary": "Substrate mixture Supplementation with wheat bran (%) C1 C2 10% WB 20% WB Chlorophora excelsa 15.93\u00b10.98* 6.72\u00b12.21 12.70\u00b10.00 9.69\u00b11.78 Celtis zenkeri 15.97\u00b12.17 16.02\u00b12.21 11.17\u00b12.97 N.A Guera cedrata 6.60\u00b12.23 6.36\u00b11.30 12.13\u00b10.00 13.01\u00b11.44 Nesogordenia papaverifera 4.56\u00b11.84 7.16\u00b13.17 14.85\u00b10.65 14.70\u00b10.60 Brachystegia nigerica 12.65\u00b12.42 12.41\u00b12.53 12.56\u00b10.70 16.17\u00b11.25 * Key words: Agro-industrial waste, bioconversion, cultivation, edible mushroom, sawmill waste.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-288", "words": "8159", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Khalil, Rowaida; Djadouni, Fatima; Elbahloul, Yasser; Omar, Sanaa", "title": "Evaluation of the effect of some environmental parameters on the level of bacteriocin activity", "date": "2019", "keywords": "activity; aureus; bacteriocin; bacteriocin activity; effect; et al; food; growth; indicator; megaterium; microbiol; mrs; production; strains; typhimurium", "summary": "The influence of inorganic salts and spices on bacteriocin activity Statistically, high level bacteriocin activity was deter- mined in NaCl concentrations up to 3% (Table 1). Influence of medium components on bacteriocin activity The effect of medium ingredients on bacteriocin production was evaluated using modified MRS broth.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-289", "words": "5122", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Saritas, Suheyla", "title": "The importance of wheat in teething celebration in Turkish culture", "date": "2018", "keywords": "baby; bread; celebration; ceremony; culture; food; teething; tooth; turkish; wheat", "summary": "Both the food and the ceremony are commonly named similarly: di bu\u011fday\u0131 or di hedi\u011fi (tooth wheat). The importance of wheat in teething celebration in Turkish culture Suheyla Saritas Balikesir University, Necatibey Egitim Fakultesi, Balikesir/Turkey.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-29", "words": "3113", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Bhattacharyya, Prakash; Ghosh, Uma; Gangopadhyay, Hiranmay; Raychaudhuri, Utpal", "title": "Effects of thermal treatments and germination on physico-chemical properties of corn flour", "date": "2013", "keywords": "boiling; cereal; corn; figure; food; germination; starch; steam; treatments; water", "summary": "The effects of gelatinization on viscoelastic property of corn starch were measured and the morphological changes of corn after different treatments were determined by scanning electron microscope (SEM). Availability makes dent corn the grain of choice for food starch manufacture, thus allowing corn starch to be an inexpensive food starch available in India.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-290", "words": "2848", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Gao, Xin; Zhang, Zhaohui; Liu, Lianfeng; Liu, Qian", "title": "Rheological changes of sea cucumber Stichipus japonicus during different heated times", "date": "2018", "keywords": "collagen; cucumber; heating; meat; relaxation; sea; time", "summary": "Accepted 12 October, 2018 Changes in tissue structure, weight, volume and rheological properties of sea cucumber meat were studied. The weight, volume, rupture strength, and elastic moduli of sea cucumber meat decreased greatly, but the relaxation time and viscosity showed positive correlation with heating time.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-291", "words": "3180", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "O. A, Awoyinka; E., Atulomah; N. O. S, Atulomah", "title": "Comparative effects of crude oil on juveniles Clarias gariepinus and Clarias anguillaris", "date": "2019", "keywords": "anguillaris; crude; gariepinus; oil; parameters; test", "summary": "Full Length Research Paper Comparative effects of crude oil on juveniles Clarias gariepinus and Clarias anguillaris Awoyinka O. A.1*, Atulomah E.1 and Atulomah N. O. S.2 1 Department of Biochemistry, Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Nigeria. However as the concentration of crude oil increases the haematological parameters such as red blood cell (RBC), packed cell volume (PCV), and white blood cell (WBC) reduced significantly (p \u2264 0.05) in both fish species.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-293", "words": "6984", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Boudjellal, Abdelghani; Becila, Samira; Coulis, Gerald; Mendez, Carlos Hernan Herrera; Aubry, Laurent; Lepetit, Jacques; Harhoura, Khaled; Sentandreu, Miguel Angel; A\u00eftAmar, Hamid; Ouali, Ahmed", "title": "Is the pH drop profile curvilinear and either monophasic or polyphasic? Consequences on the ultimate bovine meat texture", "date": "2018", "keywords": "age; animals; drop; longissimus; meat; mortem; muscle; post; profile; rate; stability; steps; toughness", "summary": "This relationship between the number of pH stability steps and the ultimate toughness of meat was confirmed using these other sources of variation in the ultimate quality of meat. Key words: pH, muscle, pH stability steps, meat toughness, cell death.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-294", "words": "8015", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Jideani, V. A.; Wyk, J. Van; Cruywagen, M. H.", "title": "Physical properties of Tylosemia esculentum and the effect of roasting on the functional properties of its flour", "date": "2018", "keywords": "bean; brown; dark; flour; food; light; morama; morama bean; morama flour; properties; protein; roasting; variety", "summary": "Effect of variety and roasting on the nutritional composition of Morama bean flour The high fat content of Morama bean was within the range reported in the literature by earlier researchers (Keegan and van Staden, 1981; Monagham, 1995; Amarteifo and Moholo, 1998). Preparation of Morama bean flours Roasting of Morama beans The method reported by Mmonatau (2005) was used for roasting Morama beans (light and brown).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-296", "words": "4683", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Kabambe, V. H.; Mhango, W. G.; Msiska, M.; Msuku, W. A. B; Nyirenda, G. K. C.; Masangano, C.", "title": "Facilitating food crop production in Lungwena, Mangochi District in Malawi: Lessons from a farmerbased pass-on seed support model", "date": "2018", "keywords": "area; cassava; crops; discussions; farmers; food; lungwena; maize; malawi; pigeon; production; seed", "summary": "Full Length Research Paper Facilitating food crop production in Lungwena, Mangochi District in Malawi: The main research objective was to identify and test a mechanism for accelerating food crop production in a community where availability, use and production knowledge of improved main food crops are low.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-298", "words": "1913", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Dzimba, Fl\u00e1via Edite J. M.; Faria, Jos\u00e9 de Assis F.; Walter, Eduardo Henrique M.", "title": "Testing the sensory acceptability of biltong formulated with different spices", "date": "2018", "keywords": "acceptability; biltong; formulation; meat; product; south", "summary": "Dried meat products. The success or failure of new food products depends on many factors, but one interesting aspect is the cultural elements.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-299", "words": "3560", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Adu, O. B.; Falade, A. M.; Nwalutu, E. J.; Elemo, B. O.; Magbagbeola, O. A.", "title": "Nutritional status of undergraduates in a Nigerian university in south-west Nigeria", "date": "2018", "keywords": "correlation; intake; pearson; serum; status; students; study; vitamin; zinc", "summary": "Key words: Adolescent nutrition, anthropometry, body mass index, hematology, nutritional status, serum zinc, vitamin A status, undergraduates. Nutritional status is the combination of an individual\u2019s health as influenced by intake and utilization of nutrients and determined from information obtained by physical, biochemical and dietary studies (Durning and Fidanza, 1985).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-301", "words": "2357", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Ngenwi, A. A.; Mafeni, J. M.; Etchu, K. A.; Oben, F. T.", "title": "Characteristics of snail farmers and constraints to increased production in West and Central Africa", "date": "2018", "keywords": "change; climate; farmers; ghana; production; rainfall; snail", "summary": "Full Length Research Paper Characteristics of snail farmers and constraints to increased production in West and Central Africa A. A. Ngenwi1*, J. M. Mafeni1, K. A. Etchu1 and F. T. Oben2,3 1 Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD) Ekona, P. M. B. 25 The results indicate that snail farmers are predominantly women with basic school level of education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-303", "words": "5658", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Cheng, Heng-wei; Wang, You-ming; Meng, Qing-ping; Guo, Jia", "title": "Pork production system and its development in mainland China", "date": "2019", "keywords": "agriculture; animal; china; development; farms; feed; food; grain; land; pig; population; pork; production; swine; water", "summary": "If the erosion continues as its current rate in northeastern China, crop output could fall by as much as 40% over the next 50 years, and in the southwest, about 100 million people will be at risk of losing their land over the next 35 years. Review Pork production system and its development in mainland China Heng-wei Cheng1*, You-ming Wang2, Qing-ping Meng2, Jia Guo2 and Yi-zheng Wang2 1 Livestock Behavior Research Unit, USDA-ARS, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA. 2 Institute of Feed Science, Key Laboratory of Molecular Animal Nutrition, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, P. R. China.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-304", "words": "5555", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Tesfaye, Etalem; Tamir, Berhan; Haile, Aynalem; Dessie, Tadelle", "title": "Effects of feed restriction on production and reproductive performance of Rhode Island red pullets", "date": "2019", "keywords": "age; body; egg; feed; restriction; weight", "summary": "ing egg type pullets and reported the delay in the onset of egg production leading to some increase in egg weight and improved overall feed efficiency. At the onset of egg production, egg weight is not large enough for commercial purpose.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-306", "words": "8890", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Goromela, E. H.; Kwakke, R. P.; Verstegen, M. W. A.; Katule, A. M.", "title": "Identification, characterisation and composition of scavengeable feed resources for rural poultry production in Central Tanzania", "date": "2019", "keywords": "availability; cereal; contents; crop; feed; feedstuffs; larvae xxx; maize; poultry; protein; resources; season; seeds; xxx xxx", "summary": "xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xx 5 4 Sorghum xx xx x xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xx 4 5 2.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-308", "words": "6692", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Olarinde, L. O.; Manyong, V. M.; Akintola, J. O.", "title": "Attitudes towards risk among maize farmers in the dry savanna zone of Nigeria: some prospective policies for improving food production", "date": "2019", "keywords": "africa; analysis; area; aversion; discriminant; farmers; group; maize; number; production; risk; total; variables", "summary": "Frequency distribution of maize farmers by risk groups (based on the risk parameter, K). 0.969 0.035 Membership of association (1 = Yes ; 0 = No) 0.991 0.377 Years of schooling 0.994 0.523 Proportion of maize to non-farm income (% Naira) 0.994 0.530 Per capita household food expenditure (Naira) 0.996 0.622 Major occupation (farming = 1 ; others = 0) 0.999 0.942 *Statistically significant variables important in determining the basic attitudes of the farmers towards maize risk.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-309", "words": "5224", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Gabriel, U. U.; Akinrotimi, O. A.; Anyanwu, P. E.; Bekibele, D. O.; Onunkwo, D. N.", "title": "The role of dietary phytase in formulation of least cost and less polluting fish feed for sustainable aquaculture development in Nigeria", "date": "2019", "keywords": "acid; aquaculture; cost; diet; feed; fish; growth; meal; nigeria; phosphorus; phytase; plant; protein; source; table", "summary": "Protein Fish meal 40 Groundnut cake 25 Palm kernel cake 15 Cottonseed cake 20 Jackbean 10 Soyabean 45 Cod liver oil 10 Corn oil 20 Soybean oil 10 Palm oil 10 Source: (Eyo, 2003). The role of dietary phytase in the formulation of fish feed using plant based protein sources which is cost effective, and reduces the incidence of aquatic pollution by making the nutrients and minerals in the feed more available to fish are thoroughly discussed in this paper.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-319", "words": "2059", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "G. O, Adegoke,; A. O, Odeyemi,; O, Hussien,; J, Ikheorah", "title": "Control of ochratoxin A (OTA) in kunu zaki (a nonalcoholic beverage) using DaniellinTM", "date": "2019", "keywords": "adegoke; daniellin; food; kunu; ota; zaki", "summary": "Short Communication Control of ochratoxin A (OTA) in kunu zaki (a non- alcoholic beverage) using Daniellin TM Adegoke, G. O1*, Odeyemi, A. O.1, Hussien, O.1 and Ikheorah, J.2 1 Department of Food Technology, University of Ibadan. E-mail: goadegoke@yahoo.com and also control the level of OTA contamination of the beverage using Daniellin TM (Adegoke, 2005; 2006).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-321", "words": "4285", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Manjunatha, Hanumanthappa; Srinivasan, Krishnapura", "title": "Hypolipidemic and antioxidant potency of heat processed turmeric and red pepper in experimental Rats", "date": "2019", "keywords": "cholesterol; heat; pepper; rats; serum; turmeric", "summary": "Dietary red pepper, both raw and heat processed fully countered the increase in serum triglyceride content of hypercholesterolemic rats. Increase in hepatic cholesterol in hypercholesterolemic animals was moderately countered by dietary red pepper, either raw or heat processed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-323", "words": "4362", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Bih Achu, Mercy; Fokou, Elie; Tchi\u00e9gang, Clerg\u00e9; Fotso, Martin; Mbiapo Tchouanguep, Felicit\u00e9", "title": "Atherogenicity of Cucumeropsis mannii and Cucumis sativus oils from Cameroon", "date": "2019", "keywords": "acid; cholesterol; corn; levels; mannii; oil; oils; palm; rats; sativus", "summary": "However, from the results of analysis of the quality of C. mannii and C. sativus oils, C. sativus oil shows lower levels of free fatty acids (acid index: C. sativus oil = 1.76 and C. mannii oil = 4.56), higher degree of unsatu- ration (iodine index: C. sativus oil = 114.4 and C. mannii oil = 106.78; unsaturated fatty acids: C. sativus oil = 78.4% and C. mannii oil = 54.7%; saturated fatty acids or SFA: C. sativus oil = 21.7% and C. mannii oil = 42%), lower level of peroxides (peroxide index: C. sativus oil = 3.31 and C. mannii oil = 13.68), lower R1 value (R1 is the ratio of the sum of saturated to that of unsaturated fatty acids. DISCUSSIONS The triglyceride (TG) levels were 75 in C. mannii and 79.4 in C. sativus oil rats compared to 73 in palm oil and 76.2mg/dl in corn oil rats, but with no significant differ- rence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-325", "words": "2684", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "A.O, Obadina,; O.B, Oyewole,; T.M, Awojobi,", "title": "Effect of steeping time of milled grains on the quality of Kunnu-Zaki (A Nigerian beverage)", "date": "2019", "keywords": "content; kunun; steeping; time; zaki", "summary": "In general, a gradual increase was observed in trend of protein with steeping time. Figure 1 also shows the variation in carbohydrates with steeping time.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-3264", "words": "3521", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Rodr\u00edguez; Ram\u00edrez", "title": "Plantain (Musa Paradisiaca) waste flour's proximate and mineral composition: A possible source of nutrients for animal feed formulation", "date": "2024", "keywords": "analysis; composition; content; food; fruit; leaf; peel; plantain; proximate; samples; sci; wastes", "summary": "Plantain wastes have the potential to be excellent sources of nutrients for animal feed production, and their use for this reason should be promoted as it will also lessen the environmental threat posed by plantain waste. The atomic absorption spectrophotometric method and standard AOAC analysis techniques were used to ascertain the proximate and mineral composition of plantain wastes (bract, ripe peel, fruit stem, and leaf).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-3266", "words": "5064", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Adisa; Chibuike", "title": "The approximate composition of cowpea (Vignaunguiculata (L.) Walp) grains preserved with solutions of Moringa (Moringaoleifera) seed oils and neem (Azadirachtaindica A.Juss)", "date": "2024", "keywords": "content; cowpea; cowpea grains; grains; moringa; neem; ratio; seed", "summary": "For 270 days, the treated cowpea grains were stored at room temperature (37 oC).Data on the proximate composition of the treated and untreated (control) cowpea grain samples were gathered at the conclusion of each 90-day storage period. The decrease in percentage carbohydrate content in cowpea grain samples treated with a 1:2 mixture of neem and moringa seed oils at the end of the 270-day study may not have been caused by the oil; rather, it may have resulted from weevils eating up the grain endosperm and the protein content increasing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-3268", "words": "4357", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Barasa; Owuor", "title": "Utilizing the infrared technology to characterize soil qualities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's South Kivu province", "date": "2024", "keywords": "analysis; et al; figure; infrared; prediction; samples; soil; spectroscopy; study; values", "summary": "As a result, alternative, quicker, and less expensive methods for soil analysis must be developed. The majority of farmers cannot afford the extremely high laboratory fees associated with soil analysis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-327", "words": "4890", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Naviglio, Daniele; Pizzolongo, Fabiana; Ferrara, Lydia; Naviglio, Biagio; Arag\u00f2n, Alejandro", "title": "Extraction of pure lycopene from industrial tomato waste in water using the extractor Naviglio", "date": "2019", "keywords": "coefficient; extraction; lycopene; naviglio; phase; recovery; solvent; tap; time; tomato; water", "summary": "Purity of extracted lycopene was checked by HPLC showing the presence of one major peak corresponding to the all-trans lycopene, while its quantification was possible through the calibration curve. HPLC chromatograms of extracted lycopene at three different wavelengths, 413.4, 474.4, 506.4 (lower part), and DAD acquisition between 200 and 600 nm of the peak measured at a retention time of 16.363 min. (upper part).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-3270", "words": "6399", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Buraimoh", "title": "Analyzing the chemical makeup of Cocos nucifera stem bark and Citrulus lanatus seeds", "date": "2025", "keywords": "bark; content; determination; lanatus; mg/100; milliliters; nucifera; plants; sample; solution; stem", "summary": "The results of the examination of C. lanatus seeds and C. nucifera stem bark revealed that while both plants had low concentrations of vitamins B1, B2, and B3, they were rich in certain vitamins, including A, E, and C. Low levels of phytate, oxalate, hemaglutinin, and trypsin inhibitor were found in C. lanatus seed and C. nucifera stem bark, according to anti-nutrient analysis. The protein and fat content of C. lanatus seeds was found to be substantially (P<0.05) higher than that of C. nucifera stem bark.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-3271", "words": "4914", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Rahul; Prasad", "title": "Creation of bread and biscuits using fermented and cooked pearl millet flour", "date": "2025", "keywords": "bread; cfpm; composite; cookies; flour; millet; millet flour; pearl; wheat; wheat flour", "summary": "Table 6 displays the sensory characteristics of both the 100% wheat bread and composite breads formed from mixes of wheat and cooked fermented wheat flours. The increased proportion of cooked fermented pearl millet flour reduces the bread's rising volume since pearl millet flour contains very little gluten.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-3272", "words": "2698", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Nwokolo; Demola", "title": "Impact of Processing Techniques on Soybean (Glycine max) Nutritional and Anti-Nutritional Properties", "date": "2025", "keywords": "content; protein; samples; soybeans", "summary": "Crude protein contents (%) for samples B, C, D, and the control (sample A) were 23.98, 24.67, 25.07, and 28.44, respectively. The significant rise in crude protein in sprouted soybeans could be due to intricate metabolic processes that occur during hydration and sprouting.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-3273", "words": "3953", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Chukwuka; Safiyanu", "title": "Moringa oleifera, Gliricidia sepium and Leucena leucocephala ensiled with molasses as additive: Effect on feed intake and digestibility in yankasa rams", "date": "2025", "keywords": "cassava; cassava peels; fed; leucaena; peels; rams; sepium", "summary": "Rams fed diet of cassava peels ensiled only had the least feed conversion ratio of 13.35 while rams fed supplemental Gliricidia sepium, Leucaena leucocephala and Moringa oleifera ensiled with cassava peels had feed conversion ratio of 10.35, 11.29 and 12.0 respectively. Rams fed Giliricidia sepium, Leucaena leucocephala and Moringa", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-328", "words": "6437", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Maage, Amund; Toppe, Jogeir; Steiner-Asiedu, Mathilda; Lied, Einar", "title": "Inclusion of marine fish in traditional meals improved iodine status of children in an iodine deficient area", "date": "2019", "keywords": "bolgatanga; children; concentration; deficiency; fish; food; ghana; goitre; intervention; iodine; sekoti; status; study; tsh", "summary": "Iodine deficiency is the single most important cause of preventable mental handicap in the world by the turn of the century (WHO/UNICEF/ICCIDD, 2001). In 1992 United Nations put forward a plan to eradicate iodine deficiency as a major health problem within the year of 2001 (FAO/WHO, 1992) through increasing: 1) iodine fortification of foods and food ingredients such as salt, water and flour; 2) distribution of iodine capsules in areas where IDD is severe, 3) use of iodine rich nutrients, like seafood, and decreasing the consumption of goitrogens.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-329", "words": "4938", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Mohammed Kabeir, Barka; Manap Yazid, Abdul; Nazrul Hakim, Muhammad; Shaborin, Anis; Mustafa, Shuhaimi", "title": "Survival of Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum G4 during the storage of fermented peanut milk (PM) and skim milk (SM) products", "date": "2019", "keywords": "fos; milk; products; storage", "summary": "On the other hand, there was evident of slight increase in profiles of propionic and butyric during the storage of strain G4 fermented products under refrigeration and at 25\u00b0C (Tables 5 and 6). pH reduction of PM and SM fermented products was not significantly (P < 0.05) different as compared to the initial level in each specific fermented product.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-331", "words": "3742", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Orhue, N.E.J.; Nwanze, E. A. C.; Okafor, A.", "title": "Scoparia dulcis protects against Trypanosoma brucei-induced immunosuppression in experimentally infected rabbits", "date": "2019", "keywords": "brucei; day; dulcis; group; infection; scoparia; total; trypanosoma; values", "summary": "Key words: Trypanosoma brucei, Immunosuppresion, Scoparia dulcis, Rabbit. The pattern obtained is assertive of progressive immunosuppressoin characteristic of T. brucei infection in mammals.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-334", "words": "3575", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Aluyor, E. O.; Aluyor, P.; Ozigagu, C. E.", "title": "Effect of refining on the quality and composition of groundnut oil", "date": "2019", "keywords": "acid; crude; decrease; fatty; free; groundnut; oil; phospholipids; refining; value", "summary": "INTRODUCTION Arachis oil (peanut oil; groundnut oil) is derived from groundnuts (seed of Arachis hypogaea Linn). Groundnut oil is a vegetable oil which contains only a small propor-tion of non-glyceride constituents.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-336", "words": "3971", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Anthony, Okon, Anne; Titus, U. Nwabueze,", "title": "Simultaneous effect of divalent cation in hydrolyzed cassava starch medium used by immobilized yeast for ethanol production", "date": "2019", "keywords": "cassava; divalent; ethanol; fermentation; production; response; starch; walker; yeast", "summary": "Ethanol fermentation of starch hydrolyzates: Starch hydroly- zates obtained by the 2-step hydrolysis of cassava starch were cooled, filtered to remove the trub and sterilized in an Oswald TM Autoclave steam sterilizer (JRIC 39, India). Ethanol fermentation by immobilized yeasts under anaerobic conditions was performed in 1l flasks with 500 ml of medium in laboratory temperature (20 o C).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-340", "words": "8897", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Soetan, K. O.; Oyewole, O. E.", "title": "The need for adequate processing to reduce the anti-nutritional factors in plants used as human foods and animal feeds: A review", "date": "2019", "keywords": "acid; aletor; animal; anti; bean; cause; cooking; effect; et al; factors; fermentation; food; germination; human; lablab; methods; nutritional; plant; processing; protein; sci; seeds; tannins; trypsin", "summary": "The aim of this review is to emphasize on the adequate processing of foods/feeds and to educate the people on the dangers of consuming improperly processed foods especially legumes which are reported to contain very high concentrations of anti-nutritional factors. Key words: Processing methods, anti-nutritional factors, plants, human foods, animal feeds.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-341", "words": "2182", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Kubmarawa, D.; Andenyang, I. F. H.; Magomya, A. M.", "title": "Proximate composition and amino acid profile of two non-conventional leafy vegetables (Hibiscus cannabinus and Haematostaphis barteri)", "date": "2019", "keywords": "acid; amino; barteri; cannabinus; vegetables", "summary": "Amino acids H. cannabinus H. barteri FAO Ref. Leafy vegetables are generally good sources of nutrients.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-343", "words": "3743", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Alakali, Joseph Shi-an; Irtwange, Simon Verlumun; Mkavga, Moses", "title": "Rheological characteristics of food gum (Cissus populnea)", "date": "2019", "keywords": "consistency; flow; index; leaves; populnea; temperature; viscosity", "summary": "Summary of ANOVA for consistency index (K) and flow behaviour index (n) for C. populnea at five levels of temperature. Regression equations for consistency index (K) and flow behaviour index (n) for C. populnea in the temperature range of 20-60\u00b0C.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-344", "words": "5731", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Adotey, D. K.; Armah, Y. Serfor; Fianko, J. R.; Yeboah, P.O.", "title": "Essential elements content in core vegetables grown and consumed in Ghana by instrumental neutron activation analysis", "date": "2019", "keywords": "analysis; calcium; content; elements; food; garden; onion; samples; vegetables", "summary": "Vegetables that constitute an esse-ntial part of the Ghanaian diet have been analyzed for essential elements content (Ca, Mg, K, Co, Br, Mn, and Na) using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA). Essential elements content (g kg -1 ) in the vegetables Mineral Tomato Garden egg Onion Pepper Carrot Ca 0.17 \u00b1 0.01 0.10 \u00b1 0.01 0.60 \u00b1 0.02 0.26 \u00b1 0.01 0.37 \u00b1 0.01 (0.01 - 0.16) (0.44 - 0.88) (0.09 - 0.84) (0.26 - 0.53) (0.002 -0.24)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-346", "words": "5140", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Anthony, Makun Hussaini; Ayinla, Gbodi Timothy; Helmina, Akanya Olufunmilayo; Ezekiel, Salako A.; Haruna, Ogbadu Godwin", "title": "Health implications of toxigenic fungi found in two Nigerian staples: guinea corn and rice", "date": "2019", "keywords": "0/3; corn; fungi; fusarium; mice; mycotoxins; niger; penicillium; rice; spp; state; toxicity; trichoderma", "summary": "Thirteen fungal species isolated from rice had more than one strain contaminating the grain in Niger State (Table 2).The fungi and the numbers of strains found were A. flavus (3), A. niger (2), A. glaucus (2), A.parasiticus (3), A.terreus (2), A.versicolor (2), Fusarium spp (3), F.solani (2), F.verticillioides (2), Penicillium spp (2), Syncephalastrum spp (2) and Trichoderma spp (2). Of all these, 64.2% were found to produce toxic metabolites that were lethal to mice and were mainly species of Aspergillus spp, Fusarium spp, Penicillium spp and Trichoderma spp.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-35", "words": "2566", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Dutta, Chaitali; Chowdhury, Banani Ray; Chakraborty, Runu; Raychaudhuri, Utpal", "title": "Incorporation of turmeric-lime mixture during the preparation of tomato puree", "date": "2013", "keywords": "blanching; control; min; puree; samples; time; tomato", "summary": "pH pH of both treated and control tomato puree samples were determined by using a pH-meter (Model no. 355, Systronics, India). RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS Soluble solid content of tomato puree samples were observed to be in the range of 11 \u2013 12.6 (Table 1), which followed the conventional rule of tomato puree prepara- tion (Crandall and Nelson, 1975).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-351", "words": "3259", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Lima, C. J. B. de; Coelho, L. F.; Blanco, K. C.; Contiero, J.", "title": "Response surface optimization of D(-)-lactic acid production from Lactobacillus SMI8 using corn steep liquor and yeast autolysate as nitrogen sources", "date": "2019", "keywords": "acid; corn; csl; medium; molasses; production; yeast", "summary": "Results of lactic acid production obtained in experiments employing the LMI8 isolate. Stationary point for lactic acid production and coded x1 and x2 values at the optimization point.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-364", "words": "1687", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Uzeh, R. E.; Alade, F. A.; Bankole, M.", "title": "The microbial quality of pre-packed mixed vegetable salad in some retail outlets in Lagos, Nigeria", "date": "2019", "keywords": "food; outlets; salad; spp", "summary": "Key words: Vegetable salad, salad ingredients, microorganisms, fast food outlets, open markets. The salads were obtained from fast food outlets (well packaged at 4 o C) and open markets (exposed at 35 o C) within Lagos metropolis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-367", "words": "3659", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Muranga, Florence Isabirye; Kanyago, Miriam; Nabugoomu, Fabian; Ntambi, James M.", "title": "Investigation of the potential of fortified instant matooke flour in rehabilitation of malnourished children (Part 1)", "date": "2019", "keywords": "content; food; incorporation; matooke; muranga; porridge; protein; sesame; soybean; viscosity", "summary": "Incorporation of sesame and soybean flours into ITF resulted in reduction in viscosity. Design for the different levels of incorporation of sesame and soybean flours into ITF.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-368", "words": "5728", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Muranga, Florence I.; Kanyago, Miriam; Nabugoomu, Fabian; Ntambi, James M.", "title": "Investigation of the potential of fortified instant Matooke flour (ITF) in rehabilitation of malnourished children (Part 2)", "date": "2019", "keywords": "control; difference; energy; food; gain; group; intake; itf; protein; serum; study; test; weight", "summary": "Group Diet Energy (Kcal) Calculation of energy intake for each child Protein (g) Calculation of protein intake for each child Test Porridge (ITF + sesame +soybean + milk + sugar) 898.1 Intake*898.1/800 26.3 Intake*26.3/800 Kitoobero (ITF + sesame + soybean) 1004.2 Intake*1004.2/700 22.2 Intake*22.2/700 High energy milk (HEM) 1002.02 Intake*1002.02/1000 43.09 Intake*43.09/1000 (milk + ITF + sugar) Control Porridge (maize flour + milk + sugar) 837.0 Intake*837/1000 28. 5 Intake*28. Macro nutrient malnutrition in children occurs as protein energy malnutrition (PEM) pre- senting clinically as kwashiorkor, marasmus or marasmic- kwashiorkor (Waterloo, 1993).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-370", "words": "6825", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Bolade, Mathew K.", "title": "Effect of flour production methods on the yield, physicochemical properties of maize flour and rheological characteristics of a maize -based non-fermented food dumpling", "date": "2019", "keywords": "flour; food; gnm; grains; gsm; index; maize; maize flour; method; production; properties; soaking; starch; tuwo; values", "summary": "RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Mass balance in maize flour production from different methods The mass balance in the production of maize flour from three different methods is presented in Table 1. Effect of flour production method on the mean particle size of maize flour.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-371", "words": "2684", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Patterson, Jamila; Ranjitha, Govindan", "title": "Qualities of commercially and experimentally sun dried fin fish, Scomberoides tol", "date": "2019", "keywords": "drying; fish; fishes; method; quality; sample; sun", "summary": "In India, utilization of dried fish comes next to fresh fish about 8 million tons of fish (25-30%) of the world catch are being used for human consumption as dried, salted, smoked or treated by some combination of these processes (Kamruzzaman, 1992) . 4 \u00d7 10 -4 1 \u00d7 10 -2 2.9 Absent Sample B (Experimentally sun dried fish)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-372", "words": "2789", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Mishra, Poonam; Srivastava, Vijeyta; Verma, Deepmala; Chauhan, O. P.; Rai, G. K.", "title": "Physico-chemical properties of Chakiya variety of Amla (Emblica officinalis) and effect of different dehydration methods on quality of powder", "date": "2019", "keywords": "acid; amla; drying; fruits; powder; variety", "summary": "The freeze dried powder had the highest ascorbic acid content followed by spray dried powder. For the preparation of spray dried powder, juice was eva- porated up to 50% using rotary evaporator.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-374", "words": "3259", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "He, Dexian; B. South, David", "title": "Gravitropism of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda ) radicles after chemical sterilization of seeds", "date": "2020", "keywords": "angle; days; experiment; gravitropism; growth; hgcl2; pine; radicle; seeds", "summary": "When treating pine seeds, concentrations of H2O2 typically ranged from 3% to 30% and exposure times varied from 0.25 to 48 h (Barnett, 1976; Mason and Arsdel, 1978; Penafiel, 1982; Graham and Linderman, 1983). However, only a few research-ers have sterilized pine seeds with HgCl2 (Tang, 2000; Han et al., 2003).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-376", "words": "4826", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Nyambati; Sollenberger, E. M.;; Karue, L.E.; Musimba", "title": "The value of Acacia brevispica and Leucaena leucocephala Seedpods as dry season supplements for calves in dry areas of Kenya", "date": "2020", "keywords": "brevispica; calves; experiment; hay; leucaena; leucocephala; seedpods", "summary": "These results suggest that A. brevispica could be utilised best not later than 13 weeks after pod formation, whereas L. leucocephala pods can be utilised even at the dry stage. RESULTS Chemical analysis Concentrations of CP, ash, NDF and ADF in A. brevispica and L. leucocephala seedpods were determined at four phenological stages (Table 1).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-379", "words": "5239", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Mapaure, Isaac; Ndeinoma, Albertina", "title": "Impacts of local-level utilization pressure on the structure of mopane woodlands in Omusati region, Northern Namibia", "date": "2020", "keywords": "area; central; densities; game; management; mopane; namibia; omusati; park; sites; stumps; trees; woodlands", "summary": "A comparative analysis of mopane woodland structure under different utilization pressure was done in Omusati region, northern Namibia. Full Length Research Paper Impacts of local-level utilization pressure on the structure of mopane woodlands in Omusati region, Northern Namibia Isaac Mapaure1* and Albertina Ndeinoma2 1 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Namibia, P. Bag 13301, Windhoek, Namibia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-38", "words": "7487", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Abegaz, Kebede", "title": "Isolation, characterization and identification of lactic acid bacteria involved in traditional fermentation of borde, an Ethiopian cereal beverage", "date": "2013", "keywords": "acid; bacteria; borde; brevis; dough; fermentation; food; growth; lab; pentosaceus; phase; strains", "summary": "flavescens (2.9%) and Lb. collinoides (1.5%) at Phase I fermentation; Lb. sanfrancisco (1.5%) and Lb. pontis (1.5%) at Phase II fermentation; non- identified isolate (1.5%) at Phase III fermentation; and Lb. delbrueckii subsp. The LAB were in the minority at start of Phase II fermentation with the addition of malt flour but they were the dominating flora as the fermentation progressed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-380", "words": "3091", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Kas\u0131m, Rezzan; S\u00fcl\u00fc\u1e9fo\u011flu, Melekber; Kas\u0131m, M. Ufuk", "title": "Relationship between total anthocyanin level and colour of natural cherry laurel (PRUNUS LAUROCERASUS L.) fruits", "date": "2020", "keywords": "anthocyanins; cherry; colour; content; fruits; laurel", "summary": "But no research has been conducted on relationship anthocyanin level and colour of cherry laurel fruits. Colour of cherry laurel fruits was measured on the cheek area of nine fruits with Konica Minolta CR-400 (Osaka, Japan).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-381", "words": "3753", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Tavasoli, E.; Marefat, A. R.; Hassanzadeh, N.", "title": "Identity and genetic diversity of Pectobacterium spp., causal agents of potato soft rot in Zanjan, Iran", "date": "2020", "keywords": "box; dna; eric; pcr; potato; production; reaction; rot; strains", "summary": "Examining strains in Zanjan province, with special primers of Y1/Y2, specialized for P. carotovorum 8 (Darrasse et al., 1994) and ECA1f, ECA2r, specialized for P. atrosepticum (De Boer and Ward, 1995), the main pathogen of potato soft rot in the Zanjan province is P. carotovorum and in some cases P. atrosepticum. Full Length Research Paper Identity and genetic diversity of Pectobacterium spp., causal agents of potato soft rot in Zanjan, Iran E. Tavasoli1, A. R. Marefat2 and N. Hassanzadeh1* 1 Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-383", "words": "6713", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Lelou, B.; Diatewa, M.; Damme, P. Van", "title": "A study of intraspecific hybrid lines derived from the reciprocal crosses between wild accessions and cultivated cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.)", "date": "2020", "keywords": "accessions; cowpea; germination; hybrid; index; it84s-2049; lines; number; plants; seed; wild", "summary": "Variability of seed number tested was due to the difference yielded in seed samples. From seed number produced by natural self-fertilisation in the F1 adult plants, the total number of F2 plants studied in the green house was 33 individuals (Table 5).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-384", "words": "1752", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Bhuiyan, Md. Nazrul Islam; Begum, Jaripa; Nandi, Nemai Chandra", "title": "Volatile constituents of essential oils isolated from different parts of Alpinia calcarata Rosc", "date": "2020", "keywords": "1,8; alpinia; calcarata; cineole; constituents; oil", "summary": "Full Length Research Paper Volatile constituents of essential oils isolated from different parts of Alpinia calcarata Rosc Md. Constituents of Alpinia calcarata leaf essential oil.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-387", "words": "3804", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Emara, Kh. S.; Shalaby, A. Emad", "title": "Seasonal variation of fixed and volatile oil percentage of four Eucalyptus spp. related to lamina anatomy", "date": "2021", "keywords": "ducts; eucalyptus; lamina; lipids; oil; seasons; species; summer; thickness; winter", "summary": "Seasonal effects on essential oils and lipids content (percentage) of different Eucalyptus species were investigated, and then correlated with lamina anatomical correspondence to affected by climatic fluctuation over the seasons. It was determined that the amount of total lipids and essential oils significantly varied by the seasons (P < 0.01).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-388", "words": "3111", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Olakojo, S. A.; Olaoye, G.", "title": "Correlation and heritability estimates of maize agronomic traits for yield improvement and Striga asiatica (L.) Kuntze tolerance", "date": "2021", "keywords": "days; ear; grain; heritability; maize; rating; striga; yield", "summary": "Striga rating on the other hand was positively correlated with plant height(rg = 0.36)* and day to tasseling (rg=0.50) ** as compared to ear height which was negative, and significantly correlated with striga rating (rg= -0.72) **. Key words: Heritability estimates, correlation coefficient, striga tolerance rating, grain yield.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-39", "words": "3128", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Okoro; Chukwuemeka, Casmir; J. O, Aina", "title": "Effect of storage on the brewing properties of tropical hop substitutes", "date": "2013", "keywords": "hop; storage; substitutes; \uf061-acid", "summary": "Conclusively, tropical hop substitutes stored at 5 \uf0b1 1 o C to 27 \uf0b1 1 o C can still be used for brewing even after three to six months storage. There was a marked increase in the \uf061-acid stability of tropical hop substitutes treated with Ca(OH)2 before pal- letizing and those not treated (Table 5).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-393", "words": "2078", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "F. N, Mbagwu; V. U., Okafor", "title": "Phytochemical screening on four edible legumes (Vigna subterranean, Glycine max, Arachis hypogea, and Vigna uniguiculata) found in eastern Nigeria", "date": "2021", "keywords": "hypogea; legumes; uniguiculata; yield", "summary": "Key words: Bambara groundnut, soya beans, groundnut, black eyed peas, edible legumes, phytochemical screening, phytonutrients. Such legumes include the alfalfa, clovers and the grain legumes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-397", "words": "7518", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Ozioma Ndubunma, Ubani; Ego Ulu, Okonkwo", "title": "A review of shelf-life extension studies of Nigerian indigenous fresh fruits and vegetables in the Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute", "date": "2021", "keywords": "ambient; baskets; conditions; control; cooler; days; fruits; life; loss; nigeria; shelf; storage; vegetables; weight", "summary": "Fruit loss in the cooler baskets was 25.5, 19.7 and 26% for the small, medium and large sizes of fruit respectively on the 7th day of storage. Fruit loss is also 7 Table 2.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-398", "words": "4064", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Asogwa, E. U.; Otuonye, A. H.; Mokwunye, F. C.; Oluyole, K. A.; Ndubuaku, T. C. N.; Uwagboe, E. O.", "title": "Kolanut production, processing and marketing in the South-eastern states of Nigeria", "date": "2021", "keywords": "eastern; kola; kolanut; leaves; nigeria; nuts; pests; production; research; south; storage; trees", "summary": "Chemical composition and potential commercial uses of kola nuts, Cola nitida (vent) schoot and Endlicher. (iii) The estimated productive life of kola trees is 70 to 100 years.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-40", "words": "5218", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Beda, Marcel Yapo; Besson, Veronique; Beourou, Sylvain; Koffi, Kouassi", "title": "Optimization of water-extract of phenolic and antioxidant compounds from Kink\u00e9liba (Combretum micranthum) leaves", "date": "2013", "keywords": "abts; antioxidant; dpph; extract; extraction; leaves; min; oedkl; taoc; total; tpc; water", "summary": "On the one hand, the use of aqueous-organic solvents, as commonly done, in the evaluation of TPC and TAOC of plant extracts does not reflect the traditional preparation of this beverage by decoction. A direct relationship between the total antioxidant activity (TAOC) and total phenolic content (TPC) of diverse (food) plant materials has widely been reported (Soobrattee et al., 2005; Carocho and Ferreira, 2013).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-401", "words": "2735", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "D, Kimassoum; H, Alexis; A, Tidjani; Z, Kanabet; Frazzoli, C.", "title": "An exploratory investigation of individual and schoollevel determinants for effective nutrition education in primary school in N\u2019Djamena, Chad", "date": "2022", "keywords": "boys; chad; children; education; girls; health; nutrition; school; score", "summary": "This study investigated factors for effective school nutrition education in N\u2019Djamena, Chad. Formative research is needed to design school nutrition education programmes in Chad, where limited studies have been conducted so far.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-404", "words": "5037", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Seifdavati, Jamal; Taghizadeh, Akbar", "title": "Fatty acid composition of meat from lambs fed diets containing moist-heat treated legume grains", "date": "2022", "keywords": "acid; clv; composition; dietary; diets; fatty; lambs; legume; meat; protein; sbm; vetch", "summary": "Intramuscular fatty acid composition of lambs fed diets containing alternative protein sources. Fatty acids were expressed as percent of total methylated fatty acids.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-405", "words": "2561", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "C.N, Ezekiel; S.O, Fapohunda", "title": "Mycological and Nutrient Profile of Soymilk", "date": "2022", "keywords": "calcium; food; growth; journal; moulds; processing; salts; sodium; soymilk", "summary": "Accepted 07 May 2022 The mycological profile during soymilk processing, nutrient profile and keeping quality of the milk were studied. Therefore, calcium chloride may serve as a better inorganic chemical preservative over sodium salts in soymilk processing for large scale commercial purposes since it is capable of suppressing mould contamination at the same time enhancing organoleptic properties.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-406", "words": "6340", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Ejiogu, Augustine Odinakachukwu; Okoli, Victor B.N.", "title": "Bird Scaring Technologies in Rice Production: The need for Policies Prohibiting Participation of Women and Children", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bird; children; development; farms; labour; nigeria; production; research; rice; rice production; scaring; technologies; technology; use; women", "summary": "During the milk stage of rice production birds are driven away from the rice farms. This neglect has in effect arrested bird scaring technologies that upgrade the traditional tedious and laborious use of women and children in bird scaring.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-407", "words": "3147", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Babalola, O. O.; Berner, D. K.; Amusa, N. A.", "title": "Evaluation of some bacterial isolates as germination stimulants of Striga hermonthica", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bacteria; control; germination; hermonthica; isolates; pseudomonas; seed; sorghum; striga", "summary": "In vitro, only Pseudomonas sp. 4MKS8 gave significant stimulation of S. hermonthica seed at 5% level of probability as compared to the water check. These were then incubated at 28 O C for 3 d and the percentage germination of S. hermonthica seeds on each disk was counted.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-417", "words": "4514", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Gholamnejad, Jalal; Reza Etebarian, Hasan; Etebarian, Reza", "title": "Yeast-Based Biocontrol: A Novel Approach to Manage Apple Blue Mold with Candida membranifaciens and Rhodotorula mucilaginosa", "date": "2023", "keywords": "apple; cacl2; days; expansum; strains; yeast", "summary": "At the same time, the other antagonistic yeast conditions such as yeast concentration and inoculation time were studied, and the best conditions for antagonistic yeast were determined. Yeast strains were grown at 20\u00b0C in nutrient broth yeast dextrose for 48 h on a rotary shaker at 250 rpm.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-418", "words": "4297", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Adeyemi, O.; Osubor, C. C.; Adeyemi, O.", "title": "Impact of contaminated water on African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) and its effects on albino rat liver", "date": "2023", "keywords": "fed; fish; gariepinus; liver; phthalate; rats; serum; water", "summary": "Full Length Research paper Impact of contaminated water on African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) and its effects on albino rat liver O. Adeyemi1*, C. C. Osubor1 and O. Adeyemi2 1 Department of Biochemistry, University of Benin, Benin-City, Nigeria. Particularly, activities of alkaline phosphatase, acid phosphatase, alanine and aspartate transaminases in the liver of rats fed with C. gariepinus cultivated in phthalate contaminated water were found to be 9.1 \u00b1 1.7, 113.8 \u00b1 6, 13.4 \u00b1 0.9 and 20.4 \u00b1 0.9 nmol/min/mg protein respectively while those of control were 16.8 \u00b1 2.2, 177.9 \u00b1 5, 16.4 \u00b1 1.3 and 23.7 \u00b1 1.2 nmol/min/mg protein.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-419", "words": "5475", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Anigo, K. M.; Ameh, D. A.; Ibrahim, S.; Danbauchi, S. S.", "title": "Nutritional analysis of homemade infant gruels made from malted cereals, soybeans and groundnuts in North-western Nigeria", "date": "2023", "keywords": "corn; foods; groundnut; maize; mgrsg; millet; nigeria; soybeans; table", "summary": "Proximate composition of formulated complementary foods (g/100 g dry matter). Amino acids composition of formulated complementary foods (g/100g protein).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-42", "words": "4200", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Abiodun, Oseni; Utunedi, Uzezi; Ayodeji, Ome", "title": "Effects of food security and Agricultural land access in Nigeria", "date": "2014", "keywords": "access; female; food; land; male; respondents; state; study; women", "summary": "This study assessed gender discrimination in agricultural land access: Implications for food security in Ondo State Nigeria. With the increasing roles of rural women in agriculture and contributions to food security and the consequence inequality on land access across gender, there is therefore the need to access the gender discrimination in land accessibility and implications to food security in Nigeria The specific objectives for the study were to:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-420", "words": "5537", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Ajah, P. O.", "title": "Predation patterns in heterobranchus longifilis Larvae: An analysis of their first exogenous feeding", "date": "2023", "keywords": "ajah; days; fed; feeding; fish; food; hatch; larvae; live; longifilis; post; prey; size; total; zooplankton", "summary": "Days 2 - 4 Days 5 - 6 Days 7 - 14 Small prey size: 42 - 125 \u00b5m Large prey size: 225 - 345 \u00b5m Larger prey size: 485 - 876 \u00b5m Composition (%) Composition (%) Composition (%) C. uncinata (85) L. ovalis (15) Larval size: 4.06 - 6.0 mm s.l Mouth width 0.4 - 0.6 mm Total guts examined 40 B. quadridentatus (39.99) A. monachanta (30) C. sphaericus (30) Copepoda (0.01) Larval size: 6.1 - 8.0 mm s.l Mouth width 0.6 - 0.8 mm Total guts examined 40 A. priodonta (28) B. longirostris (24) D. ambigua (47.5) While larval shad mainly consumed copepods (37.7%) and cladocerans (37.4%), juvenile shad ate chironomids (43.1%) and ostracods (28.4%) both thus, exhibiting diet variation in diet composition and feeding periodicity (Johnson and Dropkins, 1996). Brodeur (1998) while working on juvenile pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) observed general selection of larger prey sizes relative to what was available.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "ajfsoa-421", "words": "4429", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Ajah, Paul O.", "title": "Enhancing rotifer mass culture through algal diversity", "date": "2024", "keywords": "ajah; brachionus; culture; elegans; fed; growth; population; quadricauda; quadridentatus; vulgaris", "summary": "Five litres each of 4 ind ml -1 from pure B. quadridentatus cultures (Ajah, 1995) were introduced into each 10 m 3 tank. A number of authors have emphasized the importance of adequate supply of rotifer cultures with the appropriate nutritional quality, for the survival of larvae cultured in marine hatcheries (Hirata, 1980; Kafuku and Ikonoune, 1983; Watanabe et al., 1983; Lubzens, 1987).", "mime": "application/pdf"}]