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Carbohydrate composition of finger millet (Eleusine coracana) and foxtail millet (Setaria italica).

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Title Carbohydrate composition of finger millet (Eleusine coracana) and foxtail millet (Setaria italica).
 
Creator Wankhede, D. B.
Shehnaj, A.
Rao, M. R. R.
 
Subject 01 Carbohydrates
05 Ragi (Finger Millet)
 
Description Carbohydrate make-up of different varieties (ie, Hallllla, Puma and IndoO of Finger
millet (Eleusi/le coracana) and Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) has been studied. All the
millets contain about 63 to 70% total carbohydrates of which, based on the whole
grains, flee sugars account for 0.46 to 0.69%, starch 56.0 to 61.0% cellulose 0.70 to
l80o/o, pentosans 5.50 to 7.lD%. 70% ethanol-extractable sugars were xylose (1.5 to
4.3%), fructose (8.6 to 15%), glucose (9.9 to 15%), sucrose (31 to 35%), maltose (9 to
11.0%), raffinose (8.6 to 12%), maltotrlose (5 to 6.1 %), unidentified components (3 to
1O%) and higher oligosaccharides (510 9%). The watersoluble gums of the millets
contain arabinose and xylose as the major sugar components together with minor
amounts of mannose and galactose, and varying amounts of glucose. Hemicellulose A
was found to consist mainly of glucans contaiuing arabinose and xylose in minor
amounts. Hemicellulose B contained arabinose and xylose with smaller amounts of
glucose and galactose.
 
Date 1979
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Wankhede, D. B. and Shehnaj, A. and Rao, M. R. R. (1979) Carbohydrate composition of finger millet (Eleusine coracana) and foxtail millet (Setaria italica). Qualitas Plantarum Plant Foods for Human Nutrition, 28 (4). 293-303, 46 ref..