Abstract: Diabetes is a metabolic disorder that is often associated with high disease burden in Nigeria. Unlike in the early nineties when people relate diabetes to "curses" or "hexes", currently, it has been highly accepted as a disease whose cost of management is on the high side for an average Nigerian with the disease. It is on the basis of the above that this study focuses on the examination of both the qualitative and quantitative nutritional contents of finger millet (eleusinecoracana) with a view to providing reasons to its acclaimed potency as a dietary intervention in managing type 2diabetes among families in Katsina State. The study employed an experimental design and discovered that, the proximate analysis gave 49.86% carbohydrate, 16.93mg/100g total dietary fibre, 3.1% Ash content, 26.21% crude protein, 2.45% crude lipids and 1.45% moisture content The phytochemical analysis indicates 11.62% Flavonoids.....
Key Word – Finger millet, nutritional content, dietary intervention, diabetic cases
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