Statistical Modelling of a Preliminary Process for Depolymerisation of Cassava Non-starch Carbohydrate Using Organic Acids and Salt

Subject Areas : food microbiology

B. Daramola ¹

1 - Deptartment of Food Technology Federal Polytechnic, PMB 5351, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria.

Received: 2014-02-10 Accepted : 2014-03-06 Published : 2014-05-14

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