Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture

Table 1 Chemical composition of pineapple plant stem

From: Starch extracted from pineapple (Ananas comosus) plant stem as a source for amino acids production

	This study	[3]
Chemical composition^a
Moisture	75.84 ± 0.24	8.78
Dry matter	24.16 ± 0.24	89.50
Crude fibre	8.05 ± 1.20	37.63
Crude protein	11.56	2.30
Total nitrogen	1.85	0.37
Crude fat	1.53 ± 1.09	2.71
Ash	0.40 ± 0.00	1.24
Starch	77.78 ± 0.02	n.d
Cellulose	31.86 ± 6.34	48–67
Hemicellulose	46.15 ± 0.27	12–24
Lignin	18.60 ± 3.41	20–24

^aThe chemical composition analysis was based on dry basis, except moisture was based on wet basis

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