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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"sweet potatoes"”.
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Sweet potatoes and mung bean flour as ingredients in yeast bread
… breads were prepared with three levels of mashed sweet potato pulp and of mung bean flour. Nine combinations of mashed sweet potato pulp (10, 20, 30 percent), and of mung bean flour (4, 8, 16 percent) substitutions for wheat flour were used to determine the acceptability of these enriched breads. …
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Sweet Potatoes Production and Poverty Reduction in Singida District: Empirical Evidence from Ihanja Division
… of the study was to assess the extent to which sweet potatoes production has reduced poverty in Ihanja division, Singida district,. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected using structured questionnaire, focus group discussion and on site observations. The study revealed that …
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Factors affecting the carotene content, yield, smoothness and shape of varieties and selections of sweet potatoes for seed stock
… in yield at all locations. 3. The Virginian sweet potato variety was smoother and more uniform in shape than any of the selections of the Porto Rico. 4. No selection of the Porto Rico variety was consistently smoother than the others. Selection #1 was the most consistent selection of the …
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Study on the processing technology of iced roasted sweet potato and its sensory characteristics and nutritional peculiarities
Nowadays, fresh sweet potato is greatly influenced by seasonality and unable to be consumed all year. The roast sweet potato in market is usually made by personal, so the quality, safety and nutrition cannot be guaranteed effectively. In addition, roasted sweet potato is hard to storage and has a …
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Behavioral Determinants of Biofortified Food Acceptance: The Case of Orange-fleshed Sweet Potato in Ghana
… acceptance of biofortified orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) using data from a choice experiment conducted in Ghana. I find that OFSP is preferred to traditional white-fleshed and yellow-fleshed sweet potatoes as indicated by consumers' marginal willingness to pay for the three varieties. …
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Sustainable use of soil resource base in the Dominican Republic:a farm level economic analysis of soil conservation practices
… indicates that the promotions of coffee, sweet potatoes, and beans represent the least-costly means of meeting the twin goals of erosion reduction and income maintenance.
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Estudio de prefactibilidad para la instalación de una planta productora de tabletas efervescentes a base de aguaje (Mauritia flexuosa)
… easily accessible products such as carrots and sweet potatoes. However, the consumption of this fruit is not so common because the fruit is mainly marketed in the jungle of our country. Our product seeks to facilitate the consumption of this fruit for women residing in metropolitan Lima by …
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Small scale farming on Wetland resource utilisation: a case study of Mandlanzini, Richards Bay
… for staple food such as ‘amandumbe’, banana, and sweet potatoes by the community under study. The study also showed that indigenous knowledge can play an important role towards the restoration of wetlands. Furthermore, as many community members practiced subsistence agriculture, most of their …
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Deep learning applications in hyperspectral imaging for agriculture: image reconstruction and model design for quality prediction
… image reconstruction dataset of sweet potatoes, comprising 1322 RGB-HSI pairs. For a subset of 141 samples, agro-product quality attributes, including Brix, dry matter content, and firmness, are also provided. The goal of this dataset is to promote the use of deep learning models …
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Activity of α- and β-amylase at low temperatures
… with purified enzymes and in a system with sweet potato puree for different periods of time. In the systems with purified enzymes, commercially purified swine pancreatic α-amylase and sweet potato β-amylase at 0, 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 μg/0.5 ml concentrations were used to react with 0.5 ml of a …
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Exploring the development of communication strategies for Indigeneous Knowledge -based agricultural produce in Tshidzivhe Village, in Thulamela Municipality of Limpopo Province, in South Africa
… maize, nuts, beans, cowpeas, dried vegetables, sweet potatoes, melons - as well as other produce which may revolve around herbs obtained from indigenous trees. Communities relying on indigenous knowledge have always known how to maintain a sustainable livelihood through crop production and other …
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A study of increasing production of basic food crops in Indonesia
… of six basic food crops (rice, maize, cassava, sweet potatoes, peanuts and soybean) were analyzed for 25 provinces out of 27 provinces in Indonesia. Secondly, especially for rice production, the study examined the changes in yields over time by province and tried to explain changing yields in …
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A study of increasing production of basic food crops in Indonesia
… of six basic food crops (rice, maize, cassava, sweet potatoes, peanuts and soybean) were analyzed for 25 provinces out of 27 provinces in Indonesia. Secondly, especially for rice production, the study examined the changes in yields over time by province and tried to explain changing yields in …
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Gender-based analysis of agricultural water security in Luvhada Community, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… and the main crops grown include maize, beans, sweet potatoes and groundnuts. This study aimed to explore gender-based aspects of agricultural activities on water security in Luvhada. Data was collected from a sample size of 60 small-scale farmers in the Luvhada area and a telephone survey was …
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Nutrient and Antinutrient Content of an Underexploited Malawian Water Tuber Nymphaea petersiana (Nyika)
… than tubers like cassava (1.3%), potato (2%), sweet potato (1.6%), yams (1.5%) and N. lotus (5.2). Nyika tubers have a well balanced amino acid content, limiting only in lysine. There were no significant (P > 0.05) differences in the mineral content of BFD and USD samples, except for iron, …
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Public health nutrition intervention to evaluate the nutritional impact of the Ghana School Feeding Programme in Lower Manya Krobo (LMK) district, and enhancing its effectiveness through a nutrition intervention
… foods without compromising palatability. Maize, sweet potatoes, soybeans, Moringa oleifera, palm nut oil, anchovies were processed using traditional methods. Each SCm was formulated using nutrition data from FAO West African-Food-Composition-Table to contain at least 40% DRI for protein. AOAC …
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Vegetable intake and head and neck cancer
… score had positive, moderate correlations with sweet potatoes and pumpkin intake, r (22) = .43. That is, participants ate more sweet potatoes and pumpkin if they had a higher score of NIS. Problem with teeth and gums had negative, moderate correlations with seasonings, r (22) = -.42, p=0.04. …
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Studi etnobotani dan mikrobiologi tumbuhan berpotensi obat penyakit kulit bisul (Furunkel) pada masyarakat Kecamatan Jrengik Kabupaten Sampang Madura
… Plant extracts used are the leaves of sweet potato, the concentrations used are control (0)%, 3%, 4%, 5%, 6% and 7%. Refers to determining the concentration of the antibacterial effect of ethanol extract studies purple eggplant (Solanum melongena) to S.aureus bacteria produce a …
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Performance of Nguni goats supplemented with sweet potato vines
… but crop residues like banana leaves, cassava, sweet potato vines and other indigenous crop residues not exploited may be used as a cheaper source of feed supplement. More rural emerging farmers in Northern KZN communities seem to be farming sweet potatoes which implies that the vines could be …
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