Proximate, Mineral and Antinutrient Compositions of Indigenous Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) Pod Accessions: Implications for Mineral Bioavailability

Habtamu Fekadu Gemede^1,3*, Gulelat Desse Haki², Fekadu Beyene¹, Ashagrie Z. Woldegiorgis³ and Sudip Kumar Rakshit⁴

¹Department of Food Technology and Process Engineering, Wollega University, P.O.Box: 395, Nekemte, Ethiopia

²Department of Food Science and Technology, Botswana Collage of Agriculture, Botswana University, Gaborone, Botswana

³Center for Food Science and Nutrition program, Addis Ababa University, P.O. Box 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

⁴Department of Chemical Engineering, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), Lakehead University, Thunder bay, ON, P7B 5E1, Canada

^*Corresponding Author: Habtamu Fekadu Gemede, Department of Food Technology and Process Engineering, Wollega University, P.O.Box: 395, Nekemte, Ethiopia, Tel: +251576617981