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PJB-2011-253

INTER-VARIETAL VARIATION IN THE COMPOSITION OF SEEDS AND SEED OILS FROM WINTER MELON [BENINCASA HISPIDA (THUNB.) COGN.] FRUIT

FAROOQ ANWAR1,2, NOR AZIZAH MOHAMMAD1, FATIMAH OTHMAN1, NAZAMID SAARI1*
Abstract

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Winter melon (Benincasa hispida), locally known as Kundur, is a vegetable crop, popular, especially among Asian communities both for nutritional and medicinal attributes. In the present work, physicochemical properties of seeds and the extracted seed oils were examined and compared among three cultivars namely round, oval and hybrid of winter melon. The seeds from round, oval and hybrid fruits, exhibited protein, fiber and ash contents 28.18-42.03

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