PHYSICO-CHEMICAL AND ORGANOLEPTICS PROPERTIES OF SNAIL FED SESAME (Sesamum indicum) SEED MEAL

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the effect of feeding snail with sesame seed meal as replacement for groundnut cake meal fraction of the diet on physico-chemical and organoleptic properties. A total of one hundred and twenty (120) snails of mean weight 175±2.7g were randomly allotted into four dietary treatments replicated three times and each replicate contained ten snails per replicate in a completely randomized design. Four diets were formulated to contain SSM at 0% (SSM, )Control, 50% (SSM22), 75% (SSM) and 100% (SSM) as replacement for soybean meal fraction in the diet of growing snails. The diets were formulated to contain about 24% crude protein and energy of 2400 kcal/kgME. Carcass analysis was carried out at the end of the feeding trial. There was no significant difference(P>0.05) in the crude protein (CP) of the meat in all the treatment. The result of the organoleptic properties of the meat shows that the taste, colour, flavor and texture of the meat were not influenced by (P>0.05) the varying inclusion of SSM in the diet across the treatments as generally accepted by the panelists and significant differences were not observed in all the treatments (P>0.05). The results revealed that sesame seed meal could be used to replace groundnut cake meal partially orwholly in the diet of snail.