The Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology

Table 3 Antinutrient properties of the four processed food media

From: Susceptibility of processed and stored cassava, plantain, yam, and cocoyam to coffee bean weevil (Araecerus fasciculatus De Geer)

Food media	Antinutrient (mg/g)
Food media	Tannin	Oxalate	Saponin	Alkaloid	Phytate
Cassava	6.6 ± 0.04a	1.7 ± 0.43a	0.9 ± 0.01a	0.0 ± 0.0a	14.8 ± 0.01b
Cocoyam	11.2 ± 0.17d	1.4 ± 0.03a	4.9 ± 0.03c	0.1 ± 0.06a	31.7 ± 0.26d
Plantain	7.7 ± 0.09b	1.7 ± 0.08a	14.5 ± 0.23d	0.0 ± 0.00a	15.7 ± 0.00c
Yam	10.9 ± 0.35c	1.9 ± 0.03a	4.3 ± 0.02b	0.0 ± 0.00a	13.18 ± 0.00a

Each data represents the mean ± 2σ of the three replicates. Mean followed by the same letter in the same column are not significantly different (p > 0.05) from each other by the new Duncan’s multiple range test

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