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Dietary fibers, starch fractions and nutritional composition of finger millet varieties cultivated in Sri Lanka

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfca.2019.103249
10.1016/j.jfca.2019.103249
 
Title Dietary fibers, starch fractions and nutritional composition of finger millet varieties cultivated in Sri Lanka
 
Creator Jayawardana, S A S
Samarasekera, J K R R
Hettiarachchi, G H C M
Gooneratne, J
Mazumdar, S D
Banerjee, R
 
Subject Cereals
Millets
Finger Millet
Food and Nutrition
 
Description Soluble, insoluble and total dietary fiber contents, rapidly and slowly digestible starch contents, arabinoxylans,
β-glucans, fructans, resistant starch, amylose and total sugar contents, minerals and trace elements compositions
and proximate compositions of three finger millet varieties, namely Ravi, Rawana and Oshadha, were evaluated
using standard protocols. There were no significant differences (P≥ 0.05) among the rapidly digestible starch,
arabinoxylans, β-glucans, fructans, amylose, total sugar, protein, crude fat and crude fiber contents of Ravi,
Rawana and Oshadha varieties. Total dietary fiber contents varied between 13.01% (Ravi) and 13.79%
(Oshadha). Slowly digestible starch contents ranged from 43.38% (Ravi) to 49.15% (Oshadha) and resistant
starch contents ranged from 3.75% (Ravi) to 4.58% (Oshadha). Ash content of Ravi (3.22%) was significantly
higher (P < 0.05) than ash contents of other two varieties. Average sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium,
iron, zinc and phosphorous contents of three finger millet varieties were 12.04, 141.78, 407.15, 345.62, 3.49,
1.89 and 331.07 mg/100 g, respectively. Findings of the present study indicated that studied finger millet
varieties were good sources of dietary fibers (including resistant starch) as well as minerals and trace elements
(especially potassium, calcium, phosphorous and iron) when compared to commonly consumed cereals such as
rice and wheat.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2019-09
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11313/1/jayawardana2019.pdf
Jayawardana, S A S and Samarasekera, J K R R and Hettiarachchi, G H C M and Gooneratne, J and Mazumdar, S D and Banerjee, R (2019) Dietary fibers, starch fractions and nutritional composition of finger millet varieties cultivated in Sri Lanka. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis (TSI), 82 (103249). pp. 1-6. ISSN 08891575