Fourteenth Triennial Symposium - Session II

Subject: Value Addition for Food, Nutrition and Health

  1. Issues in post-harvest development of root and tuber crops [pdf 732Kb]
    Prof. Andrew Westby, Natural Resources Institute, UK.
  2. Cassava post harvest in Africa: Yesterday, today and tomorrow [pdf 3.9Mb]
    Dr L. Sanni, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria.
  3. Novel approaches in the value addition of tropical root crops for food and industrial use [PDF - 441Kb]
    Dr G.Padmaja, Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Kerala, India
  4. The Potential of Golden Bread Buns Biofortified with ß-Carotene- Rich Sweet potato to Add Value to Rural Diets and Increase Profits of Rural Bakers in Central Mozambique [pdf 189Kb]
    Dr Jan Low, International Potato Center, Kenya
  5. Composition and properties of mucilages from Dioscorea, Colocasia and Xanthosoma [pdf 30Kb]
    Dr Bala Nambisan, Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, India
  6. Sensory evaluation and consumer preference of white fleshed and orange fleshed sweetpotato [pdf 349Kb]
    Keith Tomlins and Andrew Westby, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, UK;
    Gabriel Ndunguru, Tanzania Food & Nutrition Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;
    Elizabeth Rwiza, Theresia Ngendello and Rahila Amour,Lake Zone Agricultural Research & Development Institute, Mwanza, Tanzania;
    Bundala Ramadanhi and Asia Kapande, Tanzania Home Economic Association, Mwanza, Tanzania.
  7. Carotene content in sweet potato varieties and its retention after processing [pdf 985Kb]
    Dr Lila Babu, Central Tuber crops Research Institute, India.
  8. Effect of lipids and surfactants on the physicochemical and functional properties of tuber starches in relation to food and industrial applications [pdf 169Kb]
    Dr S.N.Moorthy, Central Tuber crops Research Institute, India.
  9. Influence of extruder die temperature on physico-mechanical characteristics of cassava flour extrudates [pdf 298Kb]
    Dr J. Thajudhin Sheriff, Central Tuber crops Research Institute, India
  10. Cultivar differences in the nutritional attributes of Colocasia and Amorphophallus [pdf 111Kb]
    Dr. S.Sundaresan, Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, India