Thursday, 29 September 2016

Optimization of Production of Bread Enriched With Leafy Vegetable Powder

Bread is a baked product made from wheat flour. It is one of the most important staple foods in the world and the technology for its production has been in existence for long. There are evidences from food consumption survey in Nigeria of the astronomic rise in the consumption of this baked food.

Leafy Vegetable Powder
In addition to wheat flour, which is the basic ingredient in bread, yeast, butter, salt, sugar and water are also important ingredients. Other food materials like beverages can also be added based on individual delight. Each of the ingredients has its peculiar purpose in improving the physical characteristics of the final product.

Bread, despite lack of some basic nutrients, it is generally accepted and of as such belong to class of food people called ‘convenience food.Leafy vegetables represent inexpensive but high quality nutritional sources, for the poor segment of the population especially where malnutrition is on the increase.

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