TI: Nutritive value of baobab milk (gubdi) and mixtures of baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) and hungry rice, acha (Digitaria exilis) flours.

AU: Obizoba-IC; Anyika-JU
AD: Department of Home Science and Nutrition, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
SO: Plant-Foods-for-Human-Nutrition. 1994, 46: 2, 157-165; 30 ref.
PY: 1994
LA: English
AB: The baobab milk and fermented baobab/acha flour mixtures were analysed chemically for their proximate, ascorbate, mineral and antinutrient composition. The dry pulp scraped from baobab fruits was kneaded, made into solution, extracted through cheese-cloth and stored frozen until analysed. The acha and baobab grains were cleaned, fermented for 24 to 120 h, dried and hammermilled into fine flours. The unfermented flours served as controls. The standard assay methods of AOAC were selected for use for the analysis of the nutrients and the antinutrients. The mixtures were composed of 70% acha and 30% baobab flours (70:30 protein basis). The baobab milk contained more protein (1.5% and minerals (Fe, 17.8 mg; Ca 134.2 mg)) than those of human milk (protein, 1.3% Fe, 0.2 mg, Ca 30 mg), milk (Fe, 0.1 mg; Ca 1.20 mg) and most commercial infant formulas e.g. cerelac (Fe, 10.0 mg). The composite flours contained more nutrients than the baobab or the acha flour alone. The BF96 had greater advantage over other BF flours as a supplement to acha. The mixtures are within the reach of lower income group and can be incorporated into their diets.

DE: legumes-; infant-foods; plant-products; composition-; multipurpose-trees; edible-species; products-; nutritive-value
OD: Adansonia-digitata
GE: Nigeria-
BT: Fabaceae; Fabales; dicotyledons; angiosperms; Spermatophyta; plants; trees; woody-plants; Adansonia; Bombacaceae; Malvales; West-Africa; Africa-South-of-Sahara; Africa; ACP-Countries; Anglophone-Africa; Commonwealth-of-Nations; Developing-Countries
CC: QQ500; QQ050; KK600; KK540
CD: Food-Composition-and-Quality; Crop-Produce; Agroforestry; Forest-Products-Miscellaneous,-including-Minor-Forest-Products
PT: Journal-article
IS: 0921-9668
UD: 960116
AN: 951401063