Fermentation in winemaking is an exothermic process which turns grape juice or juice from other tropical fruits into an alcoholic beverage where, yeast consumes the sugar in the juice and converts it to ethanol, carbon ...

Food processing is a very important aspect in daily consumption. food processing is the way raw ingredients are transformed into consumable food. Roasting makes maize edible for consumption, in the, home of small entrepreneurs ...

Food supply can be induced either by increase in production or reduction in loss. Many post-harvest losses are direct result of factors such as high field temperatures on -tomatoes before and after harvesting, poor storage, ...

Groundnut (Arachis hypogea) also known as peanut is one of the most important food crops grown and consumed in Uganda and other sub-Saharan countries (Okello et al 201.0a). They are locally known as ‘binyebwa' and is the ...

Coffee is an important cash crop contributing 20% of Uganda's foreign exchange and, about 500,000 households depend on coffee production as a major source of income and mainly is grown by smallholders with an, estimated ...

The demand for food worldwide is steadily increasing due to the increasing world population. Fruits and vegetables play an important role in providing essential vitamins, minerals, and dietary fiber to the diets of populations ...

Maize is always harvested with a relatively high moisture content that makes it impossible to store. To minimize grain losses and thereby increase value and the profit margin of the farmer, a grain dryer is necessary for ...

The average protein content for de-husked legumes is 249g/kg and 44Q/kg in husks and although the hull contains some •nutrients, the protein and other nutrients content except ash in the cotyledon and other parts the seed ...

The objective of this study was to determine design and construct a manually operated pineapple peeler-cum- ring slicer. Manually peeling and slicing of pineapple is a time consuming and labor intensive process. Pineapple ...

Water boiling is the second largest energy user at domestic level and hotels accounting for about 26% of the total energy Costs. The study On electricity consumption at hotel Africana, one of the typical Large hotel in ...