Composition of Seed Flour of Selected Nigerian Tea (Camellia sinensis) Clones – A Comparative Study

Subject Areas : food microbiology

L. E. Yahaya ¹ , C. O. Jayeola ² , S. O. Ogunwolu ³ , A. Olalekan-Adeniran ⁴ , A. F. Okunade ⁵

1 - End use Research Division, Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, Nigeria.
2 - End use Research Division, Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, Nigeria.
3 - End use Research Division, Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, Nigeria.
4 - End use Research Division, Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, Nigeria.
5 - End use Research Division, Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Received: 2019-07-02 Accepted : 2019-07-02 Published : 2019-07-01

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