The Effects of Using Chemicals to Remove Slime from African Giant Land Snails Flesh during Processing on Some Nutritional and Biochemical Parameters

Table 1

Composition of the experimental diets used in the biological assay (g/100 g complete diet).

Ingredients (g/100 g)	Diets
	D0	D1	D2	D3	D4
Corn starch	15	15	15	15	15
Corn oil	5	5	5	5	5
Mineral complex^b	4	4	4	4	4
Vitamin complex^b	1	1	1	1	1
Cellulose	7.9	7.9	7.9	7.9	7.9
Lime sample^a	0	0	15.3	0	0
Alum sample^a	0	0	0	15.1	0
Salt sample^a	0	0	0	0	15.1
Control sample^a	0	14.7	0	0	0
Sucrose	67.1	52.4	48.2	48	48
Total	100	100	100	100	100

D0: protein-free diet; D1: control (processed without chemicals); D2: processed with lime-C; D3: processed with alum-C; D4: processed with salt-C. ^acooked and dehydrated samples, ^bsupplied by clab Laboratory, Bafoussam- Cameroon. The crude proteins obtained from proximate analysis were converted to grams by making use of DM after which the amount of protein present in 10 g was determined by simple proportion.