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Studies on Dietary Fibre Content of Four Uncommon Palmyrah Fruit Types

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dc.contributor.author Seneviratne, R.M.S.K.
dc.contributor.author Johansson, Magnus
dc.contributor.author Pathberiya, L.Gayathri
dc.contributor.author Jansz, E.R.
dc.date.accessioned 2013-05-02T07:55:18Z
dc.date.available 2013-05-02T07:55:18Z
dc.date.issued 2005
dc.identifier.citation Seneviratne, R.M.S.K., Johansson, M., Pathberiya, L.G., & Jansz, E.R. (2005). Studies on Dietary Fibre Content of Four Uncommon Palmyrah Fruit Types. Vidyodaya Journal of Science, 12, 93-97. en-US
dc.identifier.uri http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1042
dc.description.abstract The fruit pulp of common types of palmyrah (Borassus flabellifer) contains high quantities of dietary fibre and pectin content which had been reported to be 5-7%. Four uncommon fruit types were collected from Mannar, Sri Lanka, The fruit pulp contained 12,8 to 16.8% insoluble dietary fibre and 9.7 to 10.9% dry weight soluble dietary fibre. Pectin contents were high (8.1 to 10.6% dry weight) and pectin was by far the largest contributor soluble dietary fibre. Sepharose-gel chromatography showed that the soluble dietary fibre was polydisperse with some factions in type A and type B showing eluent volume corresponding to molecular weight in excess of2 million Daltons. The study show that: (i) if these uncommon type are propagated this could yield a commercially valuable by-product in pectin. (ii) high fibre content of fruit pulp can result in medically beneficial effects when edible palmyrah fruit preparations is consumed. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject Dietary fibre en_US
dc.subject Fruit pulp en_US
dc.subject Palmyrah en_US
dc.subject Pectin,s epharose gelchromatography en_US
dc.title Studies on Dietary Fibre Content of Four Uncommon Palmyrah Fruit Types en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.date.published 2005


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