Major Fermentative Organisms in Some Nigerian Soup Condiments

Preparation of Dried Vegetarian Soup Supplemented with Some Legumes

The present work was aimed to prepare dried vegetarian soup supplemented with some legumes. Potatoes, hull-less barley flour, carrot, tomatoes, onion, garlic, salt, black pepper, coriander and cumin (served as F1) were used in combination with lentil, green pea and chickpea to formulate F2, F3, and F4, respectively. Chemical, physical, rheological and sensory evaluation was performed. The resul...

Antibacterial activities of some plants used as condiments and spices in Nigeria

The aim of this experiment was to determine the antibacterial actions of the extracts of garlic, ginger, onion, basil, sweet and hot peppers on some human pathogenic bacteria (Klebsiella pneumoniae, Streptococcus faecalis, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli). Crude and filtered extracts of the plants were prepared by using water and tested on the pathogenic...

Atherogenic potentials of some Nigerian meals.

The atherogenic potentials of peeled grated cocoyam (Xanthosoma maffafa scot) "ekpang nkukwo", pounded yam (Discorea spp) with plain soup "afia efere", and plantain porridge (Musa paradisiaca) "iwuk ukom" meals were investigated. The three meals were fed to three different groups of albino rats of Wistar strain for a period of twenty eight days. A fourth group which served as control was feed w...

Microscan Walkaway for Identification and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Enterobacteriaceae and Non-Fermentative Gram-negative Organisms

Alphabet Soup

This paper is an expository piece on algebraic methods in the theory of error-correcting codes. We will assume familiarity with Galois theory and linear algebra as well as basic properties of (finite) groups, rings, fields, and probability spaces. Algebraic structure is important in coding theory because, by assigning structure to sets by defining operations on them, we can describe sets of enc...