Germination of legume seeds is an effective processing treatment to improve the nutritional quality. The aim of this study was to optimize the effect of germination conditions temperature and time. The germinated mungbean seed flour evaluated for the nutritional content changes in mungbean seed during germination. The analysis included determination of ash, carbohydrate, fat, cured fiber, moist...

Exoglucanase was produced using coffee husk, the by-product of coffee processing industries, as the sole carbon source using economical fermentation strategies like solid-state fermentation (SSF). The effects of process parameters such as pH, moisture and fermentation duration on exoglucanase synthesis was investigated using response surface methodology (RSM) based on three factors and five lev...

A central composite rotatable design (CCRD) was employed to optimize the beetroot-passion fruit blended juice. The independent variables were beetroot juice (30-70 ml), passion fruit juice (10-30 ml) and sucrose (9.00-10.50g). The combined effect of these independent variables on pH, °Brix and overall acceptability were investigated. Results showed that the generated regression models adequatel...

Hexyl butyrate, a green note flavour compound, is widely used in the food industry. The ability of immobilised lipase (Lipozyme IM-77) from Rhizomucor miehei to catalyse the transesterification of hexanol and tributyrin was investigated in this study. Response surface methodology (RSM) and five-level-five-factor central composite rotatable design (CCRD) were employed to evaluate the effects of ...

A strategy to obtain axenic cultures of the cyanobacterium Arthrospira sp. ('platensis') Lefevre 1963/M-132-1 strain, consisting of a series of physical and chemical procedures, and the application of an optimized pool of antibiotics, is described in this paper. This strategy, which is an inexpensive and fast way to obtain axenic cultures, can be applied to Arthrospira spp. from culture collect...

A highly sensitive electrochemical nanosensor was developed using covalent modification of a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) by self-assembly of a novel Schiff base. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and electrochemical techniques were used to investigate the immobilization of the self-assembled monolayer (SAM) on the GCE. The electrochemical behavior of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the presence ...

This work was objectively targeted to synthesize extremely pure triacylglycerols (TAG) enriched in conjugated linoleic acids (CLAs) for medical and dietetic purposes. Extremely pure CLA-enriched TAG was successfully synthesized by using the multi-step process: TAG was primarily synthesized by lipase-catalyzed esterification of CLA and glycerol and then the lower glycerides [monoacylglycerol (MA...

Response surface methodology was used to investigate the effect of extrusion process on proximate composition noodles analogue from water yam, yellow maize, and African yam bean flour mixture. Flour blend were produced extrude using a brabender single screw laboratory extruder (Duisburg DCE 330 model) fitted with 3.0mm die nozzle diameter. A central composite rotatable design three variables, n...

Pellets, as a clean and renewable energy source, can overcome the shortcomings of high moisture content, expensive transportation costs, non-uniform sizes for agricultural residues. However, traditional pelleting methods are associated with consumption severe mold abrasion due to application temperature pressure. To address these issues while improving pellet solid density durability, urea pret...