Gadung Tuber (Dioscoreae Hispida Dennst) As Potential Source Of Staple Food Supporting Food Diversification
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Removal of Cyanides from Gadung (Dioscorea hispida Dennst.) Tuber Chips using Leaching and Steaming Techniques
Gadung (Dioscorea hispida Dennst.) has been considered as one of staple foods in Indonesia. However, its high cyanides content has limited its utilisation for commercial food production. This work is aimed to investigate the removal of cyanides content from gadung tuber chips through two consecutive treatments, i.e. leaching and steaming and to propose mathematics model for the leaching process...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indonesian Food Science and Technology Journal
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2615-367X
DOI: 10.22437/ifstj.v1i1.4267