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Sorghum bicolor PhytoChemistry and Constituents.

Sorghum bicolor Extract Sorghum bicolor Moench photo picture image Per 100 g, the seed is reported to contain 342 calories, 12.0 g H2O, 10.0 g protein, 3.7 g fat, 72.7 g total carbohydrate, 2.2 g fiber, 1.5 g ash, 22 mg Ca, 242 mg P, 3.8 mg Fe, 8 mg Na, 44 mg K, 0 mg b-carotene equivalent, 0.33 mg thiamine, 0.18 mg riboflavin, 3.90 mg niacin, and 0 mg ascorbic acid (Wu Leung et al, 1972).

Seeds contain butyric-, formic-, myristic-, palmitic-, and stearic-acids, maltose, emulsine, and are rather rich in vitamin B (Perry, 1980). Cultivars with highly pigmented seeds are rich in condensed catechin tannin and other phenols (anthocyanins); these are usually the darker bird-, insect-, and/or fungus-resistant cvs. (Morton, 1981).

Protein contains no gluten and flour does not make good bread unless mixed with other cereals. Based on 1046 analyses, Miller (1958) reported that the DM ranges from 71.0~96.3%, averaging 89.0%. On a zero-moisture basis, CP ranges from 8.7~16.8% (mean of 1160 cases, 12.5%), EE from 1.4~6.1 (mean of 1159, 3.4%), CF from 0.4~13.4 (mean of 1085 cases, 2.7%), ash from 1.2~7.1% (mean of 1133, 2.2%), and 65.3~85.3% NFE (mean 79.2%); Ca from 0.01~0.53% (mean of 227 cases, 0.05%), P from 0.10~0.52% (mean of 235 cases, 0.35%), Cu 2~19 ppm (mean of 38 cases = 11), K from 0.28~0.50% (mean of 16 cases, 0.38%), Mg from 0.02~0.25% (mean of 23 cases = 0.19), Fe from 0.000~0.018% (mean of 44 cases = 0.005%), and Mn from 0~27 ppm (mean of 42 cases 16 ppm), S from 0.15~0.21% (mean of 6 = 0.18%), Na from 0.01~0.09% (mean of 9 = 0.05%), Cl from 0.07~0.14 (mean of 7 cases = 0.10%), Co from 0.04~0.73 ppm (mean of 22 cases = 0.3), Zn from 12~19 ppm (mean of 2 = 15), 1.3~8.8 ppm thiamin (mean of 50 cases = 4.6), 0.4~5.7 ppm riboflavin (mean of 168 cases = 1.5), 3.3~24.2 ppm pantothenic acid (mean of 165 = 125), 19.4~92.6 ppm niacin (mean of 171 cases = 48.4), 2.2~10.3 ppm pyridoxine (mean of 46 = 5.9), 528~953 ppm chorine (mean of 13 = 761), and 0.2~5.1 ppm carotene (mean of 66 cases = 1.3). Palmer and Bowden (1975) report more than 20 4-demethylsterols, 4-monomethylsterols, and triterpenes. Of 254 analyses of dry roughage, DM ranged from 62.8~94.3% (mean 85.5%). On a zero moisture basis, the dry roughage contained 3.0~17.9% CP (mean of 256 = 7.9), 1.4~3.8% EE (mean of 256 = 2.5), 17.3~38.1% CF (mean of 256 = 26.1), 4.6~18.6% ash (mean of 546 = 8.5%), and 41.0~67.8% NFE (mean 55.0), 0.2~0.8% K (mean of 14 = 1.41%), 0.21~0.4% Mg (mean of 15 = 0.3%), 0.005% Fe, 40~150 ppm Mn (mean of 8115), 0.51~0.74% Cl (mean of 3 = 0.63). One Egyptian variety yields a red dye stuff containing durastantalin (C16H12O5), quercemetrin, a flavanol, and a crystalline substance resembling pyrocatechol has been isolated from the grain (Watt and Breyer-Brandwijk, 1962).

Plants yield 27.8% pentosan, valued in furfural manufacture. Culms may contain 3 ppm ascorbic acid.

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