Soaking and drying of cassava roots reduced cyanogenic potential of three cassava varieties at Jimma, Southwest Ethiopia

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 62, 2011, Pages 13465-13469

  Nebiyu, Amsalu ^a   Getachew, Essubalew ^a  

^a JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Cassava flour; Soaking; Total hydrogen cyanide

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN CYANIDE; WATER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CASSAVA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYMATIC PICRATE PAPER METHOD; ETHIOPIA; FLOUR; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD SAFETY; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUN EXPOSURE; TIME; UNIVERSITY;

MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 80054748398     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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