Leafy vegetables are highly perishable food items and require special processing treatments to prevent post harvest losses. Leafy vegetables to be preserved by canning, freezing or dehydration are normally blanched in order to obtain good quality products. In Nigeria, leafy vegetables are preserved by sun-drying and usedlike freshly harvested vegetables in soups. The effects of these treatments on thenutritive composition and sensory qualities of some edible Nigeria leafy vegetablesare reported. Samples (1kg each) of amaranths (Amaranthus hybridus), fluted pumpkin (Talfaria accidentalis), gnectum vegetable (Gnectum africana), vine spinach (Basella alba), bush okro (Corchorus olitorus), slippery vine (Asystacia gangetica) and cocoyam leaves...
A study of the proximate analysis of two commonly grown and consumed leafy vegetables in Nigeria “fl...
Objective: Complementary foods in Nigeria among low-income households are based on staple cereals. M...
Leaves of four lesser – known leafy vegetable species (Heinsiacrinita, Lasiantheraafricana, Colocasi...
Leafy vegetables are highly perishable food items and require special processing treatments to preve...
The vegetable consumption pattern of households in selected areas in the old Rivers State (now Rive...
washing, squeeze-washing with salt and squeeze-washing with boiling. Raw ugu had highest Vitamin C c...
In tropical Africa, leafy vegetables are traditionally cooked and eaten as a relish together with a ...
Vernonia is one of the leafy vegetables that can be used in an attempt to alleviate the problem of m...
The antisickling effects of the extracts of three vegetables highly consumed in Nigeria were investi...
Vitamin C content of six fresh and dried Nigerian vegetable extracts [Venonia amygadlina (ewuro), T...
Vitamins are micronutrients needed in the body for important biologic functions. The current study e...
The effect of sun and oven drying at 100°C on the micronutrient composition of five selected 'lesser...
Vitamin and phytochemical contents of the leaves of Vernonia amygdalina, Gnetum africanum, Gongronem...
Leafy vegetables are source of macro and micronutrients that play major role in maintaining healthy ...
Vegetable has been identified as a potential tool to curb the menace of malnutrition%253B however, l...
A study of the proximate analysis of two commonly grown and consumed leafy vegetables in Nigeria “fl...
Objective: Complementary foods in Nigeria among low-income households are based on staple cereals. M...
Leaves of four lesser – known leafy vegetable species (Heinsiacrinita, Lasiantheraafricana, Colocasi...
Leafy vegetables are highly perishable food items and require special processing treatments to preve...
The vegetable consumption pattern of households in selected areas in the old Rivers State (now Rive...
washing, squeeze-washing with salt and squeeze-washing with boiling. Raw ugu had highest Vitamin C c...
In tropical Africa, leafy vegetables are traditionally cooked and eaten as a relish together with a ...
Vernonia is one of the leafy vegetables that can be used in an attempt to alleviate the problem of m...
The antisickling effects of the extracts of three vegetables highly consumed in Nigeria were investi...
Vitamin C content of six fresh and dried Nigerian vegetable extracts [Venonia amygadlina (ewuro), T...
Vitamins are micronutrients needed in the body for important biologic functions. The current study e...
The effect of sun and oven drying at 100°C on the micronutrient composition of five selected 'lesser...
Vitamin and phytochemical contents of the leaves of Vernonia amygdalina, Gnetum africanum, Gongronem...
Leafy vegetables are source of macro and micronutrients that play major role in maintaining healthy ...
Vegetable has been identified as a potential tool to curb the menace of malnutrition%253B however, l...
A study of the proximate analysis of two commonly grown and consumed leafy vegetables in Nigeria “fl...
Objective: Complementary foods in Nigeria among low-income households are based on staple cereals. M...
Leaves of four lesser – known leafy vegetable species (Heinsiacrinita, Lasiantheraafricana, Colocasi...