Influence of Temperature and Screw Pressing on the Quality of Cassava Leaf Fractions
2021
Haimanot Hailegiorgis Ayele | Sajid Latif | Joachim Müller
In this study, the development of a mild processing method for cassava leaves to remove cyanogenic compounds with minimum nutritional loss is evaluated. Fresh leaves were reduced in size using a mixer at temperatures of 25 (room temperature), 55, 80, and 100 °:C for 1 min before screw pressing to separate the juice and press cake fractions. Cyanide content in the fresh leaves was reduced by 60% at 100 °:C and by 57% in the juice sample processed at 25 °:C. The press cake cyanide content was low (210 ppm) in both the control and the sample that was processed at 55 °:C. An increase in the temperature for processing cassava leaves to 100 °:C resulted in a loss of 5&ndash:13% of the CP and 7&ndash:18% of the vitamin C content. The press-cake fraction had high beta-carotene, lutein, and chlorophyll a and b content, and low values were registered for the juice fraction. Processing fresh cassava leaves at 25 and 55 °:C resulted in fractions with high beta-carotene and lutein content. The protein quality of press cake was better than that of juice for feed. Short thermal shredding with pressing resulted in minimal loss of nutrients and a significant reduction of cyanide in the leaves.
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