Ogi (Nigerian Based Complementary Food) from Rice & Bambara Groundnut

Developing countries of the world has a lot of nutritional challenges, ranges from malnutrition, hunger and starvation. The Nigerian based complementary food (Ogi) developed from rice, bambara nut and rice malt is intended to offer nutritional solutions of infants, school children, adults and geriatrics. Rice physical and nutritional significance was reviewed extensively and evaluated. The physicochemical, functional, microbial and sensory properties of blends evaluated, would be useful not only to research students in their fields of Basic and Applied Sciences. But also to other research institutions and infants foods manufacturing industries.