Vol. 7, Issue 6 (2019)
Physico-chemical properties of the lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) rhizome
Author(s): K Gouthami, S Patel, NK Mishra and D Khokhar
Abstract: Lotus was acquainted in Asia around 7,000 years back, and grown as food crop for its seeds and rhizomes. The objective of this research work was carried out to determine the physico-chemical properties of 50 selected lotus rhizomes. The average value of the total weight of the sample, edible portion weight, length (node-node distance) was found to be 113.47 gm, 84.91 gm, 319.80 mm respectively. The average values of the diameter of unpeeled lotus rhizome at top, middle and bottom were 26.5, 23.43 and 27.03 mm respectively and for peeled lotus rhizome, the average values of the diameter rhizome at top, middle and bottom were 24.74, 22.11 and 25.59 mm respectively. The proximate analysis of lotus rhizome was evaluated. The moisture content, ash, protein, fat, fibre,carbohydrate content of the lotus rhizome varies from 80.714-81.292%, 4.423-4.825%, 1.730- 1.750%, 1.050-1.143%, 4.901-5.124%, 17.234-18.416% respectively.
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K Gouthami, S Patel, NK Mishra, D Khokhar. Physico-chemical properties of the lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) rhizome. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(6):2965-2967.
