TITLE:
Nutrient Intake and Impact of the Consumption of Two Street Foods (Garba and Rice Eggplant Sauce) in Humans
AUTHORS:
N’Gbésso Amos Ekissi, Yadé Réné Soro, Gnogbo Alexis Bahi, Ahou Bénédicte Nina Kouassi, N’Guessan Jean-Eugène Parfait Kouadio, Kouassi Benjamin Yao, Allico Joseph Djaman
KEYWORDS:
Nutritional Values, Tuna Garba, Rice Eggplant Sauce, Nutritional Profiling, Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)
JOURNAL NAME:
Food and Nutrition Sciences,
Vol.13 No.3,
March
10,
2022
ABSTRACT: Many lifestyle factors can affect health, but nutrition is an important,
modifiable, and powerful factor in promoting health, preventing and treating
disease, and improving quality of life. Inadequate dietary intake, regardless
of the cause, can have negative effects on human growth and development. Analysis
of tuna “Garba” and rice with eggplant sauce consumed in Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)
revealed low levels of water-soluble B vitamins. Also, the analysis of these
dishes observed the presence of histidine, leucine, valine, glutamine, arginine,
cysteine and alanine. The tuna “Garba” (Gab) dish showed levels in amino acids
ranging from 69.8 ± 1.33 to 764 ± 2.08 mg/kg and 77.1 ± 1.95 to 754.67 ± 2.8
mg/kg in the eggplant sauce rice (Risa) dish. During 15 days of consumption of
these dishes by the wistar rats, anthropometric parameters, namely body length
and abdominal circumference, showed a significant increase in the rats
consuming the rice eggplant sauce. The rats showed BMI, Lee’s Index and
Adipocyte Index ranged from 0.27 ± 0.01 to 0.31 ± 0.01 g/cm2; 0.25 ±
0.01 to 0.26 ± 0.00 cm and 1.67% ± 0.25% to 1.96% ± 0.21% respectively. The
nutritional profiling of these two street foods by LIM and SAIN score presented
poor profiles.