SCREENING OF PROMISING SAFFLOWER (Carthamus tinctorius L.) CULTIVARS FOR OIL CONTENT AND QUALITY
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1994
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Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri.
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The present investigation was undertaken to study
the oil content, oil quality and quality of meal protein of
safflower seeds. Fifteen samples were analysed for oil
content and eight samples analysed for protein quality
parameters.
There were significant differences among the cultivars
in respect of oil content ranging from 29.16 to 32.67% and
crude protein ranging from 10.5 to 13.4%. The safflower
seed proteins were deficient in methionine content but the
tryptophan content was u$io standard. Among the cultivars
studied, CO-1 had higher levels of protein and oil contents.
The safflower seed oil varied in respect of its acid value,
iodine value, saponification value and peroxide value from 0.391 to 0.626%, 134.13 to 145.93, 136.25 to 196.32 and 2.4
to 3.66 respectively. The methionine and tryptophan content
of the defatted saf flower meal ranged from 1.02 to 1.76%" and
1.11 to 1.50 (g/16g N) , respectively, whereas the tannin
content of safflower meal varied from 0.523 to 0.724%.
The overall results of investigation indicated that
both the oil and protein quality of the seed of safflower
cultivars studied were nutritionally under safe limits.
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