Consumers re increasing demand for foods with healthier and more functional attractions. The addition of hibiscus flour in the dough formulation can improve the color, flavor and functional properties of cookies. Within this context, the present study aimed to evaluate the physical and chemical parameters (moisture, crude protein, fat, dietary fiber, minerals, carbohydrates, energy value, water activity, pH and...
The African eggplant is a solanaceous vegetable with bitter tasting immature fruit of various colors (light green, dark green, white) and shapes (from elongated to round). Because it is a little known vegetable, there are few studies on the inheritance of its economically important traits. The objective of this work had was to study the inheritance of shape and immature fruit color in S. gilo, in order to assi...
Non-conventional food plants (NFP) represent great importance and growing productive potential, with the identification of species in each region being important. In this sense, the objective was to identify and quantify variables that characterize the different species of NFP in the southern region of Minas Gerais. A representative group sample was used with 96 producers selected from 12 associations, covering...
The use of remote sensing techniques represents a significant advance for the coffee crop data, mainly to complement the currently techniques that have been used. In this context, this study aimed to map coffee areas in high resolution images using object-oriented images analyses methods, with k nearest neighbor (KNN) and support vector machine (SVM) algorithm, and pixel-by-pixel methods, using maximum likeliho...