Novel application of biofortified crops: consumer acceptance of pasta from yellow cassava and leafy vegetables.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Newly developed yellow biofortified cassava has been adjudged as a cost-effective solution to vitamin A deficiency in low- and middle-income countries with high cassava intake such as Nigeria. In this study, yellow cassava was developed into a novel pasta enriched with amaranth vegetable and tested among consumers. Attitudes, perception, motives for consumption and perceived barriers were ascertained using focus group discussions and randomised face-to-face interviews, while liking, preference and ranking of the novel food were established through consumer sensory perception.

Results

Willingness to consume the new food, low food neophobia (32%), a health-driven consumption pattern, as well as an appreciable acceptance for the developed pasta, was established among

SUBMITTER: Lawal OM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8518994 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature