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Table 4 Nutritional quality of blend of maize and almond seed flours

From: Nutritional quality of formulated complementary diet from defatted almond seed, yellow maize and quality protein maize flours

Nutritional qualities

Samples

DQPM

DGQPM

FYM

FHQPM

CERC

BASAL

FER

0.08 ± 0.01a

0.08 ± 0.01a

0.08 ± 0.01a

0.07 ± 0.01b

0.08 ± 0.01a

0.05 ± 0.00c

PER

0.58 ± 0.01c

0.61 ± 0.01b

0.58 ± 0.01c

0.58 ± 0.01c

1.30 ± 0.02a

0.35 ± 0.00d

NPR

0.33 ± 0.02b

0.34 ± 0.01b

0.33 ± 0.02b

0.33 ± 0.02b

1.03 ± 0.01a

0.30 ± 0.01c

TD (%)

97.76 ± 1.05a

98.00 ± 1.00a

97.86 ± 0.05a

97.63 ± 0.05a

97.76 ± 0.05a

97.30 ± 0.01a

BV (%)

9.83 ± 0.05e

36.73 ± 0.03b

32.78 ± 0.01c

29.32 ± 0.02d

69.51 ± 0.01a

7.01 ± 0.00f

PRE

4.80 ± 0.02d

5.57 ± 0.06b

4.76 ± 0.01d

4.99 ± 0.01c

16.62 ± 0.02a

2.28 ± 0.01e

NR

7.31 ± 0.01e

8.03 ± 0.06b

7.89 ± 0.00c

7.80 ± 0.00d

8.81 ± 0.01a

7.04 ± 0.04f

NPU

9.80 ± 0.01e

35.67 ± 0.58b

32.07 ± 0.67c

28.59 ± 0.01d

68.00 ± 1.00a

7.83 ± 0.00f

  1. DQPM Dried Quality Protein Maize, DGQPM Dried Germinated Quality Protein Maize, FYM Fermented Yellow Maize, FHQPM Fermented High Quality Protein Maize, CERC Cerelac. FER Food Efficiency Ratio, PER Protein Efficiency Ratio, NPR Net Protein Retention, TD True Digestibility, BV Biological Value, PRE Protein Retention Efficiency, NR Nitrogen Retention, NPU Net Protein Utilization. Values with different superscript on the same row are significant (p < 0.05)