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Abstract
The study was carried out in order to find out the effect of substitution of wheat flour with sweet potato flour of two
local varieties (Local Sada and Local Lal) on the quality of bread. This study was also concerned with the analysis of
proximate compositions of sweet potato and results showed that, fresh local sada and local lal sweet potato varieties
contained moisture 70.10 and 66.78%; ash 4.46 and 4.21%; fat 0.71 and 0.74%; protein 1.75 and 1.63%;
carbohydrate 22.98 and 26.64%; vitamin-C 8.86 and 9.49 mg/100g respectively. The compositions of sweet potato
flour were also analyzed and showed that local sada and local lal sweet potato flour contained moisture 5.25 and
5.32%; ash 4.12 and 4.17%; fat 0.75 and 0.81%; protein 9.80 and 9.21%; carbohydrate 80.08 and 80.49%; vitamin-C
2.45 and 2.31 mg/100g respectively. This analysis showed that the sweet potato flour is quite rich in protein content.
The breads containing of sweet potato flour were prepared using standard formulation with 5, 10 or 15% substitution
of wheat flour by sweet potato flour and evaluated their acceptability by a number of panelists. The result obtained
showed that the color, taste, texture, flavor and overall acceptability of the breads containing sweet potato flour were
equally acceptable with control bread. Statistical analysis showed that the overall acceptability of bread with sweet
potato flour was equally acceptable as the control bread and bread with 10% substitution level (local lal) was
moderately acceptable and other products (including 15% substitution) were ranked as like slightly.