Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences
Open Access

Nutritional and anti-nutritional attributes of underutilized legumes, (Adansonia digitata) Albizia lebbeck seed and Daniellia oliveri

2^nd International Conference and Exhibition on Nutritional Science & Therapy

July 15-17, 2013 Courtyard by Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, USA

H. O. Adubiaro, O. Olaofe and R. I. Aboloma

Accepted Abstracts: J Nutr Food Sci

Abstract :

The present study investigation the chemical compositions of Daniellia olivieri, Baobab (Adansoni adigitata) and Albizzia lebbeck seeds using standard analytical techniques. These seeds have very high protein contents, in the range of 33.40% - 48.32% with Adansonia digitata having the highest and Daniellia olivieri the lowest value. The crude fat varied with values ranging from 8.32% - 6.93%. Proximate composition ranges were: moisture content 3.23% - 4.20, crude fibre 3.56% - 6.35%, ash 3.83% to 4.51% and carbohydrate (by difference) 21.90% - 44.60%. The most abundant minerals were Ca (300 - 880) mg/100g, Mg (170 - 380) mg/100g and K (113 - 210) mg/100g. The level of Na/K ratio is desirable compared with the recommended values. The amino acid analysis revealed that all the samples contained nutritional useful quantities of most of the essential amino acids with total essential amino acid (TEAA) with histidine ranging from 260.00 to 399.80g/kg of protein. The first limiting amino acid was cys (5.3 - 12.6) g/kg crude protein and calculated isoelectric point (PI ranged between 3.12 and 4.41. The anti-nutritional factors showed that the seeds may be recommended for human consumption.