To curtail the high cost of importation of wheat flour into Ghana, CSIR-Food Research Institunderhana under the West Africa Agriculture Productivity Program WAAPPP 2A) has trained bakers and pastry makers on how to use root and tuber and locally grown cereal flour as composite flour for the production of bread and other pastries.
It was therefore necessary to determine the concentration of trace metal: As, Cu, Fe, Hg, Pb, Zn, and aflatoxin B1, B2, G1, and G2 in maize, sorghum, millet, rice, cocoyam, water yam and sweet potato flour samples used as composite flour for making bread and other pastries.
When iron-rich foods – liver, red meats, eggs, fish, whole-grain bread, legumes – are not widely available or affordable, fortifying staple foods such as flour is an alternative for reaching a large portion of the population.
Some measuring cups are actually made for dry ingredients such as flour or sugar.
If you plan to use a gluten free flour for home baking, it is not as simple as replacing wheat flour with gluten free flour and following the same recipes.
Therefore, the replacement of konilite flour for silica flour as a mineral admixture in oil well cement should be a more suitable method for cementing of the steam injection wells.
In both countries, sweet potato is also dried as chips to make sweet potato flour for use in cooking after the harvest season; therefore, extensive studies of β-carotene retention following drying and throughout storage of the dried products were carried out and are presented here (Tables 5 and 6).
All purpose is fine, but bread flour (it will be labeled as "bread flour," "high protein flour," or "flour for bread machines") is best--it has a higher gluten content, so will respond to kneading better.
Maize flour was used for analyses of moisture, ash and protein; soybean oil was used as in-house control sample for fat; whole wheat flour for fibre; and rice flour (Standard Reference Material 1568a) for the minerals.
