Recurrent droughts and soil degradation have had an adverse impact on food security and have increased malnutrition in Zambia. This has necessitated the promotion of conservation farming and diversification of food production. Velvet beans (Mucuna pruriens) is a crop that offers excellent soil conditioning properties and produces large quantities of beans of high protein and energy content. How...

Legumes are a rich source of many different biologically active substances, such as fiber, proteins, vitamins and minerals. Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is the third most important leguminous plant in world: it has high nutritional value wide range bioactive compounds. Bioactive peptides chickpea seeds have antioxidant, ACE-inhibiting, cholesterollowering, antihypertensive, antimicrobial, anti...

The increase of atmospheric CO2 due to global climate change or horticultural practices has direct and indirect effects on food crop quality. One question that needs to be asked, is whether CO2 enrichment affects the nutritional quality of Malaysian young ginger plants. Responses of total carbohydrate, fructose, glucose, sucrose, protein, soluble amino acids and antinutrients to either ambient ...

Baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) seeds are underutilized and native to Savannah regions of Africa. The problem the hard-to-cook (HTC) phenomenon with antinutrients exists. application monovalent ion salt solutions becomes important. This study analyzed effect soaking in deionized water, 0.5% w/v salts (NaCl, NaHCO3), sodium a divalent (Na2S2O5) on polyphenyl, antioxidant activity, functional prop...

This work aimed to develop a novel methodology based on aqueous micellar systems (AMS), for producing soy protein concentrates (SPC) from soybean flour and recovering high-valuable bioactive compounds as by-products. Ethoxylated aliphatic alcohols Tergitol 15-S-7 15-S-9, non-toxic biodegradable surfactants, were selected form the AMS. The consisted of an extractive stage with AMS, which rendere...