AVAP PAST ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Generation of food products from roselle, pigeon pea, limaa bean, dried kenaf and Chocorus vegetables, soybean, bambara groundnut , pigeon pea, maize, quality protein maize,and roselle, All technologies were developed for household, cottage and industrial use.
  • Development and nutritional evaluation of shelf-stable products from
  • i) Soya bean such as cheese,  milk,  yoghurt, tofu sticks,  dawadawa,  soya-ogi,  soya-garri,  soya-corn milk,  soya-mayonnaise,  soya-burger, and other soya-based snacks.
  •  (ii) Roselle such as wine, tea and jam.
  • (iii) Maize-based snacks such as maize biscuits and maize chinchin.   iv) Pigeon pea such as dawadawa in  fresh, dried and cube forms, maize-pigeon pea  flour and snacks, fufu-pigeon pea flour, lafun-pigeon pea flour.
  • (v) Others include lima bean snacks, dawadawa, moinmoin, alapa and ekuru. Quality protein maize (QPM) spiced cake, QPM kokoro and QPM- kidney bean abari.
  • Developing food training modules for cottage, low scale and large scale food industries to minimise postharvest losses and contamination, and for improved nutrient retention.
  • Developing effective packaging systems for retention of texture, flavour and nutrients of highlighted processed foods.
  • Transfer of technologies through training to facilitate the adoption of some of the perfected developed technologies for income generation.