Protein Quality Evaluation of Raw and Processed Seeds of Cadaba farinosa Forssk and Growth .........

Farinosa cadaba Forssk is a wild shrub whose seeds are consumed as a famine food in North Eastern Nigeria when traditional crops fail to grow. This study was conducted to determine the protein content of seeds and to assess the growth success of experimental animals fed seeds processed in various ways. Cooking, cooking with potash, fermentation, and sprouting are some of the processed methods. The amino acid profile was determined using a PTH-Amino acid analyzer, and the necessary amino acids were scored using milk reference protein. Weaning albino rats were fed the products for 28 days to see how they developed. The nitrogen content of feed, faeces, urine, and the carcass of the animals was determined using the Kjeldahl process. The Biological Value (BV), Protein Efficiency Ratio (PER), Net Protein Utilization (NPU), and Protein Digestibility-Corrected Amino Acids Score were used to determine the protein content of processed foods (PDCAAS). The sample cooked with the addition of potash had higher levels of amino acids, according to the results of the amino acid analysis. Glutamic acid was found to be the most abundant amino acid in the sprouted and raw seeds, with values of 11.96 g/ 100 g and 13.96 g/ 100 g, respectively. With the exception of tryptophan, which ranked 219.29 percent for seeds cooked without potash, the chemical score of amino acids showed a higher score for protein in seeds cooked with potash. The diet cooked with potash had the highest PDCAAS (49.84 percent), but it had a lower biological value (95 percent) and protein efficiency ratio (0.32). The sprouted diet party had a substantial increase in body weight (P=.05) (52.13 percent ). Sprouting and fermentation were more promising in terms of encouraging the growth of the experimental animals than cooking with the addition of potash, which showed a higher distribution of amino acids.

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