Content of review 1, reviewed on May 29, 2020
MY OPINIONS ABOUT THE PAPER
1. The title is not clear, please reframe. Check Line 1
(The Correlation between Water Absorption and Density Change during Boiling with the Cooking Time of Cassava Roots)
(Correlation of Cooking Time of Cassava Roots with Water Absorption and Density Change during Boiling of Cassava Roots)
2. List of authors is muddled up. Please separate them. Check lines 5 and 6. Authors names should start with their last name, and then followed by their initials. This would be okay if it is the Journals style for writing the authors names.
3. The abstract is not clear. The information the authors are trying to pass across is not clearly stated. The information is distorted. Rewrite the abstract.
4. Be consistent with your style of referencing (check line 67, Eggleston, G. and R. Asiedu, 1994)
5. References are not provided for some methods used. Check lines 101, 115, 151
6. Your conclusions must be drawn in line with the objectives of this study. This is not reflected in your conclusions
7. Generally, the researches/authors carried out a lot of work which they muddled up in one paper that could have been splitted into two or three papers.
8. Missing references:
Eggleston and Asiedu, 1994;
Eggleston and Asiedu, 1994; not listed in the reference section
Eggleston, G. and R. Asiedu, 1994
Morante, 2019, unpublished data
Safo-Kantanka and Owusu- Nipah, 1992
- Out of the 29 references cited, 21 are recent (falling between the year 2002 to 2019), 4 references fell between the year 1992 to 1998, while the remaining 4 references fell between 1985 to 1988
Source
© 2020 the Reviewer.
Content of review 2, reviewed on July 03, 2020
The authors have responded very well to issues raised in the first review.
Source
© 2020 the Reviewer.
References
Thierry, T., Xiaofei, Z., Hernan, C., L., M. J., Jorge, L., Andres, E., Nelson, M., John, B., A., B. L., Dominique, D. 2021. Correlation of cooking time with water absorption and changes in relative density during boiling of cassava roots. International Journal of Food Science & Technology.
