intercropping systems compared to monoculture systems can more efficiently use the existing resources which ultimately will lead to increased plant performance. therefore, to evaluate the benefits of intercropping maize and beans and assess its impact on yield and yield’s component, an experiment was conducted in factorial design with randomized complete block design in three replication, in 20...

Summary This study was conducted to determine the effect that a popping head (like rice cake machine), low‐shear and low‐water processing technology, has on concentration of antinutritional factors in chickpeas red kidney beans. Seeds were popped under several parameters (popping time, sample format equipment type) analysed against soaking (1:5 w/v reverse osmosis water for 24 h), roasting (100...

Consumption of dry beans is limited by long cooking times thus high fuel requirement. The bioavailability of nutrients in beans is also limited due to presence of antinutrients such as phytates and tannins. Little research has been done on combined processing methods for production of nutritious fast cooking bean flour and the effect of combined treatments on nutritional quality of beans has no...

BACKGROUND A high intake of white rice is associated with the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. Costa Ricans follow a staple dietary pattern that includes white rice and beans, yet the combined role of these foods on cardiometabolic risk factors has not been studied. OBJECTIVE We aimed to determine the association between intake of white rice and beans and the metabolic syndrome and its...

The free fatty acid (FFA) content in dry cocoa beans is expected to be less than 1.0% to meet the acceptable level of 1.75% in cocoa butter. This study therefore investigates the impact of insect infestation on FFA formation in raw cocoa beans in storage from Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Hence, the effect of storage management on FFA content in dry cocoa beans is very important. The effect of insec...

A method is developed for the determination of nine organophosphorus pesticide residues in cereals and kidney beans by capillary gas chromatography with flame-photometric detection. In this method, dichloromethane is used for clean-up after liquid-liquid extraction. It is shown that good separations are obtained using a fused-silica capillary column (DB-1701) by the optimized temperature progra...

a procedure for the in vitro evaluation of the toxicity of fava beans has been applied to 17 varieties of the bean and one batch of beans purchased on the open market; the latter consisted of unknown varieties. the procedure involves the incubation of a saline extract of the beans with red cells from normal individuals and with red cells from g6pd deficient patients. 2. normal red cells under t...