Utilizing Bambara Groundnut in Value-Added Products
African consumers are demanding new food products that have health benefits coupled with the apparent increasing need for convenience food on the continent. Underutilized food crops prevalent on the continent are loaded with healthy nutritional components (Jideani and Murevanhema 2013; Jideani and Diedericks 2013). One such crop is Bambara groundnut (BGN) (Vigna subterrenea). BGN is an indigenous African crop that is grown as food across the continent (Atiku et al. 2004) as well as in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka (Eltayeb et al. 2011). BGN is a popular crop because of its resistance to drought and pests and its ability to produce a reasonable crop when grown on poor soils. It has long storage life (Amarteifio and Moholo 1998), a much desired property in the face of global warming