Vol. 7, Issue 4 (2019)
Biochemical, mineral and proximate composition of Indian cassava varieties
Author(s): Geethu Mohan, Jinimol Raju, R Shiny, PV Abhilash, S Soumya, MN Sheela and G Byju
Abstract: Cassava tuber, stem and leaves have got multifarious applications in food, feed and industry. Generally, it is believed that cassava is a poor man’s crop with little nutritional quality. The ICAR-CTCRI, India has a collection of 1211 germplasm accessions of cassava and has released 20 varieties suited for direct consumption, starch extraction, other industrial applications, for disease resistance etc. The nutritional quality and composition of tuber, stem and leaf of all the important varieties have been systematically analysed in this study by using nineteen popular cassava varieties/landrace in India. The study showed large differences in biochemical, mineral and proximate composition. The crude protein content showed values ranging from 0.85 to 2.00%. Similarly, essential minerals such as K, Ca, Fe, Mn, Zn and Cu also showed large variations among the 19 varieties/landrace. There are varieties that could provide complete recommended dietary allowance from a meal of 150 g in the case of K, Fe and Mn. Present study suggests that there exist considerable variations in most of the properties studied and are genetic in nature which shows excellent opportunities available for exploiting these differences and further increasing them by breeding methods and bio fortification.
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Geethu Mohan, Jinimol Raju, R Shiny, PV Abhilash, S Soumya, MN Sheela, G Byju. Biochemical, mineral and proximate composition of Indian cassava varieties. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(4):1059-1065.
