Chemical and color characterization of breast meat from FUNAAB indigenous and marshal broiler chickens.

The study was conducted to evaluate breast meat quality attributes of Marshal and FUNAAB Indigenous (Alpha C13 and Alpha C14) Broiler (FIB) chickens. Birds of average live weights (1.8 to 2.

Cassava-soy weaning food: biological evaluation and effects on rat organs.

Weaning food was formulated using a cassava product, 'Tapioca' (TAP), supplemented with roasted-sprouted soybeans (SS), with and without additional (10%) malted sorghum flour (MS). Biological evaluation was carried out on the formulations using 4-5 week old weanling albino rats, with Cerelac (a commercial maize-milk weaning food) as the control diet. There were increases in growth rate of rats fed with both the test and control diets.