ENRICHING NIGERIA MENU WITH THE USE OF SOYA BEANS
INTRODUCTION
Soya
beans have come to play a prominent role in our daily diet because of the
nutritional value it contributes to various dishes.
Soya
beans can be processed into many products such as milk, cheese which comes as
an extract from soya milk and can also be used in making soya moin moin, soya
beans Amala with soya Egusi/Ugwu soup.
Soya
beans belong to the family edible seeds of the leguminous plants and the word
is derived from the Latin word (legumes). It has been found that the biological
value of its protein is known to be very high and much higher than those of
other vegetable protein and from animal origin because it contains practically
all the essential amino acids in fairly good amount for body needs.
Cereal
proteins which constitute the major protein source for people in many
developing countries are generally of a relatively low quality because they
lack-adequate amounts of the essential amino acid especially lysine. How ever,
they contain relatively low protein, and other sulphur amino acids.
Therefore,
consuming a mixture of soya beans protein the nutritional quality of the
protein from either source can upgrade the nutrition of the people who now
subsist on protein deficient diets especially in Nigeria.
Realizing
the importance of adequate consumption of high quality protein food is the
maintenance of good health; effort should be made to utilize potentially good
and cheap sources of proteins.
It
is therefore necessary to investigate how soya beans could be put to use to
complement the deficiency in the protein of our staple food like yam, cassava,
maize e.t.c further more, with the difficult of obtaining imported food these
days, the use of soya beans in enriching meal can break Nigerian menu monopoly
and go a long way in saving substantial foreign exchange for Nigeria.
However,
protein content is only one of the factors that make soyabeans a potential
answer to inadequate nutrition. As with many food, soyabeans should not be
considered as a sole sources of
nutrition, but when combined with
other foods, soyabeans especially as a
protein sources can go a long way in
upgrading the nutrition of million of people throughout the world.
Management
of the hotel and catering industry can not deny that sales of food and beverages,
which accounts for some percentage of income to the hotel has been declining
due to exorbitant price which accounts from the meat prepared. Soyabeans
products which are equally good nutritionally as those from animal origin and cheaper
will go along way in
reducing the cost of the food thereby increasing the patronage and profit margin
of hotel industry.
v To
show the quickest method of producing dishes from soyabeans.
v To
promote the acceptability of soybeans supplement in strict vegetarian diet.
v To
make Nigeria be aware of the improved recipe made from maize
v To
document and update the new products obtained from soya beans.
v To
produce cheap protein to the low income earner.
v To
increase sufficient food of protein origin to the masses
ABSTRACT
The aim of this
project is to enrich Nigerian menu with the use of soyabeans. Using semovita as
control for soyabeans flour for the production of Amala, and using corn flour
as control for soyabeans flour for the production of moinmoin. It is hoped that
the findings would make these dishes from the above food materials known,
accepted and included in the Nigerian menu in such a place like homes.
Attempts were made to
review relevant literatures to provide information in all areas covered by this
work. Different measures that were used are 50/50, 100%. The taste panels were
requested to evaluate such qualities which include appearance, taste, colour,
flavour, texture.
It was discovered that the dishes
made from taste, colour, flavour, texture. It was discovered that the dishes
made from these food commodities had flavour, looked colourful, palatable and
presentable.
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