COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ASH AND MOISTURE CONTENT OF RIPED AND UNRIPE PLANTAIN (MUSA SPP)

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ASH AND MOISTURE CONTENT OF RIPED AND UNRIPE PLANTAIN (MUSA SPP)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION                                                       1

AIMS/OBJECTIVES                                                 2

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM                                     2

LIMITATION OF STUDY                                            3

CHAPTER II

LITERATURE REVIEW                                             4

HISTORY OF PLANTAIN                                           6

PRODUCTION TREAD                                              7

PLANTAIN HABITAT                                                 8

PLANTAIN CULTIVATION                                         8

PLANTAIN MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

AND HERBAL USE                                                   9

NUTRITIONAL VALUES AND GENERAL

USE OF PLANTAIN                                                   12

CHAPTER III

METHODOLOGY                                                      16

CHAPTER IV

RESULT ANALYSIS                                                  18

CHAPTER FIVE

DISCUSSION                                                           19

RECOMMENDATION                                                       21

CONCLUSION                                                          22

REFERENCES                                                         23

ABSTRACT

Plantain (Musa paradisiaca) are edible fruits that grow in tropics and sub-tropics regions of Africa. There are many varieties of plantain, they include Musa acminicta, red banana, Musa balbisiana apple bananas and Cavendish banana. But this write up centered on ripe plantain and unriped plantain. As plantain is consumed by almost everybody round the regions of the world. Plantaion which is cultivated around many countries of the world grows best in a warm and well manured areas of the tropics. It has been discovered that most of the people prefere the unripe plantain to the ripe one. Therefore, our research has been able to find out why it was so. The practicals performed indicated that unlike the unripe plantain, the ripe plantain has more moisture content than the unriped plantain this has been found to be responsible for the easy spoilage of the ripe plantains as this moisture content attracts bacteria easily than the unripe. More effort was also made to analyse the ash content of both the ripe and unripe plantain. Thus the result of the practical showed that the ash content of the unriped plantain is relatively lower than that of the riped plantain.

CHAPTER   I

1.0   INTRODUCTION

1.1   Plantain belongs to the musacace family and is cultivated tin many tropical and some tropical countries of the world. It ranks third after yams and cassava for sustainability in Nigeria. (Akomolafe and Abirisade 2007) Plantain (musa paradiasiaca) is a rhizomatous perennial crop used as a source of starchy staple for millions of people in Nigeria (Adeniji et al, 20060). Mature plantain pulp is very rich in iron, potassium, vitamin A, and ascorbic acid but low in protein.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ASH AND MOISTURE CONTENT OF RIPED AND UNRIPE PLANTAIN (MUSA SPP)