Multilayer Mineral Composition of Snacks for Livelihood Implications
Abstract
The study investigated the multilayer mineral composition of the snacks produced from pumpkin, sweet potatoes, dates, tiger nuts and native bananas. The organoleptic/sensory evaluation was carried out on the samples. A nine-point Hedonic scale and Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used (see appendix I). The simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample size of 15 academic and non-academic staff of the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics of the Imo State University, Owerri as judges. A comparative statistics and comparative analysis was conducted to present the difference in proximate composition (moisture, crude protein, crude fiber, crude fat, total ash, total carbohydrate and gross energy values), mineral contents (Ca, K, Na, Mg, Mn, Cu, Fe Zn and P) and anti-nutritional factors (phytate and tannin) in the samples (PTC 1, SPC 2 and NBC 3). The analyses were performed using SPSS version 23 (19). Differences in means at p< 0.05 were considered significant. The formulated hypotheses were analyzed using ANOVA. Any significant level less than 0.05 was significant and accepted. But any significant level more than 0.05 was not significant and therefore rejected. Some of the findings are that the proximate compositions (moisture, protein, crude fiber, crude fat, ash, carbohydrate and gross energy values) of the samples were normal. The moisture content ranged between 25.97% and 20.85% with 20.85 (SPC 2) the lowest moisture content.
Keywords
PumpkinSweet PotatoesDatesTiger NutsNative Bananas
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