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Use Of Composite Flour Blends For Biscuit Making Peanut Cassava Flour
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1.2 AIM / PURPOSE
As
everybody including the federal government is putting effort together
to induce foreign exchange conservation by means of local material
utilization. It has been decided to carryout some work on cassava and
peanut blend in order to use them as substitute for imported wheat in
making flours for biscuit manufacture. Peanut butter is also added to
complement the necessary amino acids.
The result of research carried
out and test conducted by Roots and Tubers Expansion Programme show that
it is possible to produce acceptable biscuits of comparable standard to
that of wheat flour biscuits using composite flours from the above
named legume and Roots.
Wheat whose flour is the major material used
for biscuit manufactures in most countries of the world traditionally
employ wheat for biscuits and similar products. Although wheat flour is
generally employed as the basic ingredients in biscuit manufacture.
Wheat is uniformly grown all over the world and being a temperature
crop, it only grows under certain climatic conditions. Consequently,
biscuit manufacture industries in countries where wheat does not grow
have to import the grain or the flour.
In countries, Nigeria, to be
precise, wheat is cultivated though not in appreciable quantity due to
climate conditions, a large sum of foreign exchange is spent on
importation especially with the present rate of growth of biscuit and
allied industries in Nigeria (Federal Office of Statistics, Lagos
Nigeria). There are a lot of industries (confectionery) although the
date is not yet readily available, all based on wheat flour. Foreign
exchange spend as at 1982 are huge amount of money. Therefore success in
this trend of supplementation will save a huge sum of money being spend
annually on wheat importation and could now be utilized to improve
other sector of the country’s economy.
The aim of this project work
therefore is to reduce or stop totally the extensive importation of
wheat, thereby broaden the food base of Nigerians. The commercial and
industrial implication will bring economic benefits to all biscuit
consumers by making the product more readily available. Supplementation
of imported wheat flour with cassava flour will save millions of naira
in foreign exchange.
It is also estimated that the use of these
composite blends (cassava flour and peanut butter) will result in the
production of biscuits that are less expensive and highly nutritive than
those produced before.
It will also create new employment
opportunities as well as economic self-reliance both at the industrial
and house – hold level of cassava processors.
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