{"id":1741,"date":"2015-10-15T11:12:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T11:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2015-10-15T11:12:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T11:12:28","slug":"effect-of-period-of-fermentation-on-nutrients-of-castor-oil-seed-ricinus-communis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2015\/10\/effect-of-period-of-fermentation-on-nutrients-of-castor-oil-seed-ricinus-communis\/","title":{"rendered":"Effect of Period of Fermentation on Nutrients of Castor Oil Seed (Ricinus communis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Nigeria performed an experiment to analyse the effect of period of fermentation on the nutrients of castor oil seeds. Castor oil seed was dehulled, boiled an<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-44 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Castor-Oil-Seeds2.jpg\" alt=\"Castor-Oil-Seeds2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>d wrapped in a banana leaf. The wrapped seed was kept in a basket and allowed to ferment for four days. The package was unwrapped daily to remove 250g\u00a0of fermenting cotyledon and dried at 60\u00b0C to terminate the fermentation process.<\/p>\n<p>Results showed that the fermented castor oil seeds exhibited increase in moisture, crude protein, crude fibre, carbohydrate, potassium and zinc. The lysine content also significantly increased on the fourth day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/directresearchpublisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Ishiwu-et-al.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Nigeria performed an experiment to analyse the effect of period of fermentation on the nutrients of castor oil seeds. Castor oil seed was dehulled, boiled and wrapped in a banana leaf. The wrapped seed was kept in a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2015\/10\/effect-of-period-of-fermentation-on-nutrients-of-castor-oil-seed-ricinus-communis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,11],"tags":[206,14],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castor-research","category-castor-seeds","tag-castor-research","tag-castor-seeds-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}