Cassava

Production, Nutritional Properties and Health Effects

Buch | Hardcover

134 Seiten

2014
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-63321-031-8 (ISBN)

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Cassava is the most important of the root crops in the tropics and ranks fourth after rice, sugarcane and maize as a source of calorie for human needs. Since its introduction into Africa in the 16th century, cassava has spread throughout sub-Saharan Africa to become one of the dominant starchy staples in the diet of the people. Cassava is a major staple for about half of the Nigerian population and nearly 50 million tonnes of fresh cassava is produced annually in the country. This quantity is enough to meet the calorie requirement of 50 million people at about 200 calories per day. Cassava is important not just as a subsistence or food security crop, but also as a main source of cash income for producing households. Its production and processing provide employment and income for the rural poor, especially women and children. This book discusses the environmental impact cassava may have; the functional and nutritional characterization of cassava flour; cassava bread; other food products developed from using cassava roots and its derivatives; and cassava varieties and their breeding status.

PrefaceCassava use for Environmental Purpose: Removal of Metal Species from Water(Gustavo Rocha de Castro, Alexandre de Oliveira Jorgetto, Marcos Henrique Pereira Wondracek, Adrielli Cristina Peres da Silva, Instituto de Biociencias de Botucatu-UNESP - Dept. Quimica e Bioquimica Botucatu, SP, Brazil)Functional and Nutritional Characterization of Cassava Flours for Industrial Applications(Sivoli L.J., Ciarfella A.T., Perez E.E., Departamento de Ciencias Biomedicas, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, and others)Cassava Flour and Starch as Differentiated Ingredients for Gluten Free Products(Cecilia Dini, Maria Cecilia Doporto, Sonia Zulma Vina, Maria Alejandra Garcia, Center of Research and Development in Food Cryotechnology (CIDCA-CONICET-UNLP), CCT La Plata, Argentina, and others)For Complete Table of Contents, please visit our website athttps://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=49974

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.2014
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	456 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
ISBN-10	1-63321-031-6 / 1633210316
ISBN-13	978-1-63321-031-8 / 9781633210318
Zustand	Neuware