From: Evaluation of sweet potato for fuel bioethanol production: hydrolysis and fermentation
Sweet potato | Water content (%) | Free sugars (% w/w db) | Starch (% w/w db) | Total sugars in glucose equivalent (% w/w db) | Fiber (% w/w db) | Proteins (% w/w db) | Lipids (% w/w db) | Ash (% w/w db) | ||
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Glucose | Fructose | Sucrose | ||||||||
Fresh | 73.1 ± 0.1 | 2.4 ± 2.1 | 2.6 ± 1.6 | 8.0 ± 0.4 | 55.5 ± 1.8 | 75.0 ± 6.1 | 1.0 ± 0.1 | 3.5 ± 0.8 | 0.4 ± 0.1 | 4.1 ± 0.3 |
Flour | 7.7 ± 0.0 | 2.1 ± 0.2 | 1.6 ± 0.1 | 15.8 ± 0.6 | 51.1 ± 3.7 | 77.0 ± 5.0 | 3.0 ± 0.3 | 6.6 ± 1.5 | 1.8 ± 0.5 | 2.7 ± 0.1 |