Quality evaluation and value addition, of chicken dabunama products, from broilers, fed abattoir waste in their diet as alternative protein

Value addition has gained increasing attention as a means of naturally controlling wastage in meat industry, to facilitate reasonable consumption and production, SGDs goal 12. Dabunama products from chicken fed abattoir waste, could assist in increasing protein intake, convert waste to reasonable products, and reduce cost of feed production. 300-day old Ross broiler chicks were randomly distributed to 5 treatments percentage inclusion, of abattoir waste. 60 birds, with 3 replicates of 20 birds each, at 0%, 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% respectively. Completely randomized design was employed to evaluate, proximate and mineral composition, cholesterol content, of raw chicken and their respective danbunama products using Analysis Association Analytical Chemists AOAC, palatability status using 9-points hedonic scale and microbial loads. Results show that raw chicken meat has (20.72 - 26.48 %) protein, while danbunama had (32.96 - 46.32 %). Ether extract of raw muscle and dandunama products increases as inclusion of abattoir waste increases. Phosphorus from mineral composition was not significantly different in raw chicken meat. T2 performed better with mineral composition compared to other treatments evaluated. Microbial status, T2 had lowest value significantly (p0.05) difference in value gotten for overall acceptability of both boiled broiler chicken and danbunama chicken products. Chicken danbunama, had higher proximate composition with lower values: in moisture content, mineral content, microbial loads, palatability scores compared to raw chicken and cooked chicken meat.