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Lecturer, ift member, smallholder farmers, value addition, neglected functional crops

Biography

Bolanle Akinwande is a lecturer in the Department of Food Science and Engineering, LAUTECH and a member of the Institute of Food Technologists. She lectures and supervises research work of university students from B.Sc. to Ph.D. level, with passion to address issues relating to access to healthy foods by rural poor. Her research focus is to solve the problems of nutritional deficiencies and poverty trap of the smallholder farmers through enhancement of utilization of under cultivated and neglected local functional crops that provide health benefits beyond basic nutrition.

Activities

Works (4)

Application of Annealed Bambara Starch as a Stabilizer in Ice Cream Production

Macromol
2024-07-25 | Journal article
Contributors: Faith O. Nwaogazie; Bolanle A. Akinwande; Oluwafemi A. Adebo; Samson A. Oyeyinka
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Chemical composition, nutritional, functional and pasting properties of yellow root cassava grits and african yam bean flour blends

International Journal of Food Studies
2022-04-18 | Journal article
Contributors: funmilayo Abioye; Ololade Abosede Olodude; Bolanle Aishat Akinwande
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Amino acid, phytochemicals, and antioxidant activities of gluten-free cookies from orange-fleshed sweet potato and Pleurotus tuber-regium sclerotium

The Annals of the University Dunarea de Jos of Galati Fascicle VI – Food Technology
2021-07-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Fausat Lola Kolawole; Bolanle Aishat Akinwande; Beatrice Iyabo Omowumi Ade-Omowaye; Shakirah O Azeez; Samson Adeoye Oyeyinka
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Physicochemical properties of novel cookies produced from orange-fleshed sweet potato cookies enriched with sclerotium of edible mushroom (Pleurotus tuberregium)

Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences
2018-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Fausat L. Kolawole; Bolanle A. Akinwande; Beatrice I.O. Ade-Omowaye
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