期刊名称:Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology
印刷版ISSN:2457-1024
出版年度:2019
卷号:38
期号:6
页码:1-8
DOI:10.9734/cjast/2019/v38i630388
语种:English
出版社:Sciencedomain International
摘要:Aim: To create variety of flours through food product development by checking the proximate and
functional properties of flours from brown variety of African yam bean (Sphenostylis stenocarpa)
seeds.
Study Design: This study was made to fit into a one way Analysis of Variance.
Place and Duration of Study: The research was carried out at the Department of Food Science
and Technology laboratory, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria, between July 2017
and September 2018.
Methodology: Brown coloured variety of African yam bean seeds were sorted, soaked, dehulled
and milled to obtain full fat flour. The full fat flour was further processed to obtain defatted flour,
protein isolate and protein concentrate. The different flours were analysed to determine their
proximate and functional properties.
Results: From the results of the proximate composition, it showed that the protein isolate value
89.1±0.23% was higher than the protein composition of the full fat, defatted and protein
concentrates which has 21.8±0.16%, 23.1±0.06% and 61.7±0.21% composition respectively. There
were no significant difference (p<0.05) between the protein concentrate, protein isolate, full fat flour
and defatted flour. The functional properties revealed high bulk density of (0.50± 0.01) for the
defatted flour more than the full fat flour (0.35± 0.10) while the emulsion capacity of the protein
concentrate and protein isolate flour was found to be (30.7±0.19%) and (35.3± 0.16%) respectively.
Conclusion: The proximate and functional results obtained indicate that the starches from African
yam bean will have useful technological properties for many applications both in food industries and
in the production industries such as in paper and textile industries. It can also be said that African
yam bean represents a source of alternative protein supplement and its protein isolates possess
certain characteristics that will aid in protein enrichment for some food products.