Nutritional profiling of diploid (AA & AB) banana genotypes

Abstract

An experiment was conducted at ICAR-AICRP on Fruits, K.R.C. College of Horticulture, Arabhavi to study the nutritional profiling of triploid (AAB) banana genotypes during 2018-19. The results revealed that, The nitrogen content of fruit sample ranged from 126.00 mg/100 g (Anaikomban) to 515.00 mg/100 g (Pisang Lilin) with a mean value of 272.00 in AA group. In AB group it was ranged from 123.00 mg/100 g (Aktoman) to 287.00 mg/100 g (Kodappanilla) with a mean value of 147.75 mg/100 g. potassium content of banana varieties ranged between 568.00 mg/100 g (Kadali) to 1142.00 mg/100 g (1142.00 mg/100 g) with mean value of 794.00 mg/100 g among AA group. Among AB group, the potassium content ranged from 698.00 mg/100 g (Aktoman) to 1532.00 mg/100 g (Ney Poovan) with a mean value of 797.00 mg/100 g. AA group depicted that, the iron content was ranged from 1.77-2.08 mg/100 g with a mean value of 1.91 mg/100 g and statistically analysed, it was noticed that, Namarai (2.08 mg/100 g) contained high amount of iron followed by Anaikomban (1.97 mg/100 g) while less iron content was observed in Kadali (1.77 mg/100 g).