Processing Effects on Some Antinutritional Factors and In vitro Multienzyme Protein Digestibility (IVPD) of Three Tropical Seeds: Breadnut (Artocarpus altilis), Cashewnut (Anacardium occidentale) and Fluted Pumpkin (Telfairia occidentalis)

2 Abstract: Mature seeds of breadnut, cashewnut and fluted pumpkin were processed in the laboratory into the raw dried, boiled, fermented, germinated and roasted seeds. Differently processed seeds were dried at 50 C, gro und and sieved through 500µm sieves. The seed flours were evaluated for trypsin inhibitor o activity, tannin, phosphorus compounds and in vitro multienzyme protein digestibility (IVPD). The results show that processing...