Authors: Yannick Dimitry Mang Yanou Nicolas Njintang Bouba Armand Abdou Joel Scher Clémence Bernard Moses C Mbofung
Publish Date: 2016/07/08
Volume: 53, Issue: 6, Pages: 2548-2557
Abstract
The present work was carried out to evaluate the nutritive quality proximate and antinutrients composition of vegetable milks prepared from whole and dehulled mucuna bean flours Casein and mucuna milk diets were fed to rats four weeks old n = 8 per group for 28 days to determine protein efficiency ratio PER net protein efficiency ratio NPER true and apparent digestibility TD and AD respectively organtobody weight ratios and hematological parameters The experimental design was a factorial design with two variety of mucuna cochinchinensis and veracruz and two treatments whole and dehulled beans Protein total sugar dry matter and ashcontent of mucuna milks ranged from 640 to 1213 g/100 mL 1052 to 1308 g/100 mL 859 to 1288 g/100 g and 031 to 092 g/100 g respectively Milks from dehulled flours had lower contents of tannins 80–8708 phytates 7667–7816 and LDopamine 4445–6666 than that from whole flours The PER of dehulled mucuna diets were 2276–2174 but negative PER and low NPER was observed for whole mucuna milk diets TD for dehulled mucuna milk 8515–8596 were higher and similar to casein when compared to that of whole mucuna milk 4787–5117 Rats fed with diets containing whole mucuna milk lost weight and had higher kidney weight In addition the rats fed with milk from whole mucuna flours showed significantly lower levels of lymphocytes granulocytes red blood cells hemoglobin and hematocrit than that fed with dehulled mucuna milk
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