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CHEMICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF SOME SWEET POTATO VARIETIES

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This investigation was carried out to evaluate the chemical characteristics of new eight sweet potato varieties namely, CEMSA 74-228, SANTO AMARA, NC 1525 and KEMB 37 (creamy flesh) and JAPON TRESMESINO, LO 323, TAINUNG 64 and BEAUREGARD (yellow flesh ), and study their suitability for processing. The obtained re-sults reveal that SANTO AMARA and KEMB37 varieties were the best ones having the highest content of chemical constituents compared with those of the other studied creamy flesh sweet pota-to varieties. Moreover, 140 days from planting was the best harvesting time that achieved the highest chemical characteristics. All selected creamy sweet potato varieties had adequate miner-als contents especially, KEMB 37 followed by NC 1525 and CEMSA 74-228 then SANTO AMARA varieties that could be considered good sources of minerals for human nutrition. Yellow flesh sweet potatoes have been recognized as valuable sources of carbohydrates, protein, dietary fibers and could be considered as good sources of both vitamin C and total carotenoids. Moreover, TAINUNG 64 and LO 323 were found to be good sources of β-carotene (pro- vitamin A). The more suitable har-vesting time for yellow sweet potato varieties, which recorded the highest levels of essential ele-ments, was 140 days from planting. On the other hand, TAINUNG 64 variety could be considered the best one compared to the other examined vari-ties. The most suitable varieties that having good quality attributes for processing were SANTO AMARA and KEMB 37 as creamy flesh and TAINUNG 64 and BEAUREGARD as yellow flesh sweet potato varieties. Moreover, these va-rieties could be successfully used in the produc-tion of new and untraditional sweet potato prod-ucts.

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10.21608/ajs.2008.14550

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Sweet potato, Creamy and yellow flesh, chemical characteristics, β-carotene, Sweet potato products

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El-Bastawesy

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Amal

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Food Technology Res. Institute, Agric. Res. Center, Giza, Egypt

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Lobna

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A. Hareedy

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Food Technology Res. Institute, Agric. Res. Center, Giza, Egypt

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Mervat M.

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EL-Far

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Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute, Agric. Res. Center, 12619, Giza, Egypt

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16

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2882

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2008-03-01

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2007-10-30

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2008-03-01

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87

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96

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1110-2675

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2636-3585

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Arab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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