Consumers can soon enjoy a new type of bread, following the introduction of new orange fleshed sweet potato bread. Afco Investment Company Limited executive director, Miss Fortunata Mmari, stated that her company is holding talks with the International Potato Centre to help provide technical support. The move will also link the company with orange sweet potatoes farmers for making orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes bread.
The varieties of OFSP can play a key role in alleviating vitamin A deficiency, which is rampant among children in Tanzania, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. "We cannot just start enter into orange bread production without having a proper supply of raw materials to make the bakery products," Mmari said. "For a start, we have identified two bakeries within the city we would be working with by supplying produce to their bakeries."
According to allafrica.com, Miss Mmari further explained that this will be a pilot project; expansion will depend on the acceptance of the product.