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Teaching Hospital, Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. Groups of type 2 diabetic patients were
engaged in a focus group discussion to identify the plantain dishes commonly
prepared and their recipes. The groups mentioned many plantain dishes but five
of them were randomly selected for preparation. The ingredients for preparation
of the unripe plantain dishes were purchased from a market in Uyo. The proximate,
mineral and antinutrient composition of the dishes were analyzed using standards
methods. Means and standard deviation of the triplicate determination was determined
and analysis of variance was used to separate the means. The results showed
that Unripe plantain flour had the highest carbohydrate content (76.96%) while
unripe plantain flour meal with vegetable soup had the highest protein and ash
content. All the plantain dishes had low levels of minerals. The saponin (2.54%)
and tannin (0.08%) levels of the unripe plantain flour was the highest when
compared with the other plantain dishes. There is need to educate the diabetics
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