In developing countries cassava starch is produced mostly rurally using artisan methods through wet-way processes that consume as much as 37 m3 of water per processed ton. In comparison, the little industrial production consumes 5 m3 of water per processed ton. These waste waters, highly contaminated, are usually discharged in to the rivers without any treatment. With the aim of industrializing...

This study was aimed to find the formulation of composite flours from rice, cassava, and soybean flours, potato starch, and hydrocolloids, and also to find the egg replacer formulation from whey and soybean protein isolate. The composite flours and egg replacer then were used as wheat flour and egg alternatives in cake production, and some physicochemical and functional properties of the treate...

The use of cassava for fuel ethanol production in Nigeria is supported by the Nigerian Biofuel Policy and Incentives (NBPI) 2007. Because its food, feed industrial value, need to replace with crops/plants that are food feeds neutral has motivated this research. Starch was extracted from forest anchomanes (FA) (Anchomanes difformis (Bl.) ENGL.) tubers some physicochemical elemental properties we...

Cassava starch grafted with polystyrene (PS-g-starch) copolymer was synthesized via free-radical polymerization of styrene by using suspension polymerization technique. Potassium persulfate (PPS) was used as an initiator and water was used as a medium. The graft copolymer was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, thermal gravimetric analysi...

Starches from cassava tubers, sweet potato, and mango seeds were isolated characterized. The starches' proximate, elemental composition, physicochemical physical properties, studied. Cassava tuber yielded 93.45 percent, while Potato Mango seed 88.65 78.45 respectively, in the proximate composition. When compared to at 5.49 potato starch 5.72, which have a highly acidic pH, had neutral pH of 6.9...