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Drivers of consumer acceptability of cassava gari-eba food products across cultural and environmental settings using the Triadic Comparison of Technologies approach (tricot)

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Title Drivers of consumer acceptability of cassava gari-eba food products across cultural and environmental settings using the Triadic Comparison of Technologies approach (tricot)
 
Creator Olaosebikan, Olamide
Bello, Abolore
de Sousa, Kauê
Ndjouenkeu, Robert
Adesokan, Michael
Alamu, Emmanuel Oladeji
Agbona, Afolabi
van Etten, Jacob
Ngoualem Kégah, Franklin
Dufour, Dominique
Bouniol, Alexandre
Teeken, Béla
 
Subject genotypes
consumer behaviour-consumer preferences
varieties
breeding
testing
cassava
food science
biotechnology
 
Description BACKGROUND: Nigeria and Cameroon are multi-ethnic countries with diverse preferences for food characteristics. The present study aimed to inform cassava breeders on consumer-prioritized eba quality traits. Consumer testing was carried out using the triadic compar ison of technologies (tricot). Diverse consumers in villages, towns and cities evaluated the overall acceptability of eba made from differ ent cassava genotypes. Data from both countries were combined and linked to laboratory analyses of eba and the gari used to make it.
RESULTS: There is a strong preference for eba with higher cohesiveness and eba from gari with higher brightness and especially in Cameroon, with lower redness and yellowness. Relatively higher eba hardness and springiness values are preferred in the Nigerian locations, whereas lower values are preferred in Cameroon. Trends for solubility and swelling power of the gari differ between the two countries. The study also reveals that the older improved cassava genotype TMS30572 is a benchmark geno type with superior eba characteristics across different regions in Nigeria, whereas the recently released variety Game changer performs very well in Cameroon. In both locations, the recently released genotypes Obansanjo-2 and improved variety TM14F1278P0003 have good stability and overall acceptability for eba characteristics.
CONCLUSION: The wide acceptance of a single genotype across diverse geographical and cultural conditions in Nigeria, as well as three acceptable new improved varieties in both locations, indicates that consumers' preferences are surprisingly homogeneous for eba. This would enhance breeding efforts to develop varieties with wider acceptability and expand potential target areas for released varieties.
 
Date 2023-07-18
2023-09-05T14:21:01Z
2023-09-05T14:21:01Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Olaosebikan, O.; Bello, A.; de Sousa, K.; Ndjouenkeu, R.; Adesokan, M.; Alamu, E.; Agbona, A.; Van Etten, J.; Ngoualem Kégah, F.; Dufour, D.; Bouniol, A.; Teeken, B. (2023) Drivers of consumer acceptability of cassava gari-eba food products across cultural and environmental settings using the Triadic Comparison of Technologies approach (tricot). Journal of The Science of Food and Agriculture First published (18 July 2023) 12 p. ISSN: 0022-5142
0022-5142
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131748
https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.12867
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 12 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher Wiley
 
Source Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture