Uses of maize pdf

Is vc still a thing final. Related Books Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. Related Audiobooks Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. Elizabeth Howell. Uses of maize and its Functions 1. Maize flour is used to make baked products and corn bread. Cornstarch is made from maize kernels which is act as a thickening agent in soups. Corn syrup is used as a sweetener as an alternative of sugar in various products such as candy and cookies.

Sweet corn is most usually used in the U. S it accrues more sugar and less starch in the kernels. Baby corn is a variety of maize developed to produce many small ears.

Nutrition Facts in Maize Maize contains high level of starch, oils and also rich proteins. It contains good source of dietary, sodium and protein. Maize Exporter produce good quality of maize it contains Vitamins such as A,C and E it is very important to human health. Importance of Maize In Global Maize is the most widely grown crop in the America and it is one of the important crops in the world.

Maize is mostly cultivated in America and Africa. It is a versatile crop and can be grown in a number of different environments. Pests of Maize Pests of Maize is generally categorized in two types they are: One is Insect pests and other one is diseases.

Common Insect pests of maize are corn silkfly, corn borer and corn delphacid. Some common diseases of maize include Grey Leaf Spot and common rust. Melissa Cooper Nov. Good luck! Arunsrivastava47 Oct. Total views. You just clipped your first slide! Clipping is a handy way to collect important slides you want to go back to later. Now customize the name of a clipboard to store your clips.

Visibility Others can see my Clipboard. Cancel Save. Exclusive 60 day trial to the world's largest digital library. The current investigations on the traditional preparations and uses of maize by various ethnic groups in Nigeria is to make available differ methods of preparations and uses to all people.

These include oral interview of local people of different ethnic backgrounds, field trips to some areas where maize is used in making porridges or dishes, and consultation of relevant literatures. Preparations and uses as food Maize is an all-important crop which provides an avenue for making various types of foods. It also has some medicinal values and serves as raw-materials for many industries.

Grain is the most important part of maize crop. It is put to many uses. Pap There are two popular paps in Nigeria; hot-pap and cold-pap. Then the grains are washed with clean water severally and later ground to paste.

Water is added and leave for days with change of water at interval. At this stage, amount desire may be taken, stirred and poured inside boiling water and stirred until a semi-liquid porridge hot pap is obtained.

In some cases, little grains of guinea corn Sorghum bicolor L. Moench, Poaceae are mixed with grains of maize, or guinea corn alone or millet Pennisetum americanum K. Schum, Poaceae alone may be used to prepare hot-pap Banigo and Muller, just as described above.

Preparation of cold-pap is differs a little. After the grinding of the grains, the ground paste is filtered using clean, white cloth to get very smooth paste.

Meanwhile, remaining fine paste after filtration is allowed to settle down at the bottom of pot with water on top. This is then put inside banana leaves Musa spp. Alternatively, it may be put inside polythene paper nylon — a recent phenomenon. The hot is allowed to cool down and solidified, and thus become thick porridge i. The half-cooked watery porridge is poured inside nylons at desire amount and re-cooked inside a pot containing hot water, this make it more solidified than eko.

Major difference between hot-pap and cold-pap lies in the states they are taken or served. Generally, paps may be taken alone or with sugar or with bean cakes i. Amaranthus cruentus L. Its preparation seems to be similar among all groups though with minor differences. Small water is added to the grains to enhance testa removal. This is then sun-dried. In some localities, the testa is not removed. Vitellaria paradoxa Gaertn. It was introduced to Nigeria from Ghana probably by the emigrant Ghanaians or by Nigerians lived in Ghana.

It has become a popular food among middle aged Nigerians. Soaked grains are then ground wet paste and leave in this state for about two days to ferment. The purpose of which is to bring out the characteristic sour taste of the finished product.

Both are made with coarsely, wet-ground grains. Small piles of this are put separately into a frying-pan containing hot groundnut oil or palm oil- Elaeis guineesis Jacq. At intervals, a required quantity can be measured out and mixed with ingredients like sliced tomato, pepper and onion Allium cepa, L. All these are cooked together.

After sufficient cooking, the mixture i. It is eaten with vegetable stew. The particles are mixed with oil and vegetable leaves e. Amaranthus spp. Sauer, Amaranthaceae and cooked. Onion and pepper are added to the grains and ground together with local grinding stone or with mortal and pestle or with grinding machine.

Then palm oil and salt are added to it to turn red and to taste respectively. The former is not as hard as the latter. The mixture is moulded into small ball shapes i.

Popcorn Locally, there are two types of popcorn- hard and soft. Popcorn is made by putting maize grains inside a saucer-shaped earthen pot containing sand, and heated with firewood. The heat generated by the hot sand roasted and changed the colour of the whitish grains to brownish i. Popcorns may be eaten alone or with roasted groundnut. Fried ribbons are maize cakes i. This is mixed with palm oil which make it to be solidified, or to clump together.

This method is described by Adegoke and Adebayo Cooked or boiled maize Whole freshly harvested maize fruit is cooked or boiled until the seeds are soft and eaten on the cob. Roasted maize Whole freshly harvested maize fruit is roasted with hot-charcoal over a wire-gauze until the seeds become brown. It is eaten in this form on the cob. It is used to cure many diseases, which it had over the years proved to be very effective. Water filtered through charcoal obtained from maize stalk can be used as a treatment to cure gonorrhea AbdulRahaman, An infusion obtained from stigma of maize inflorescence can be used for treatment of diseases of the urinary tract or passage AbdulRahaman, Water i.

This is used to treat fever and malaria. Water obtained from the cold-pap is more effective than that from the hot-pap. It is mixed with some preparations usually granulated, black particles to cure some spiritual problems.

It may be prescribed to provide protection against enemies, bad occurrences or to foster posterities. Holes are created or made in some maize grains to make rosary.

This is put on the hand wrist of a child to prevent him or her from becoming slim. Whole dried maize fruit and dried yam with some charms are planted or buried together. This preparation is done to unite or bind couple together with effect that either of them cannot remarry to another person. It means that they will remain husband and wife forever.

This opportunity must be harnessed to the maxima. Even though, maize is chiefly a carbohydrate reached food, it contains a sizeable amount of proteins Table 1 , minerals Table 2 and vitamins Table 3.

It therefore means that it is a complete food for low level income people. Osagie and Eka reported that maize is the second most important cereal crop in Nigeria ranking behind sorghum in the number of people if feeds. Adequate and accurate information on this all-important plant is very relevant and must not be localized. Meanwhile, the findings contained in this paper are believed to be an eye-opener to those traditional preparation methods and uses of maize that are restricted to some localities which are not known to other groups of people.

Edited by K. Elepo Press, Ilorin. Adegoke, G. Plant food Hum. Banigo, E. Cereal Chem. Food Technol.