Studies on bio-chemical attributes of different accessions of Palmyrah Palm fruit (Borassus flabellifer L) in Bhagalpur district of Bihar

Abstract

The palmyrah palm (Borassus flabellifer L) is a minor tropical fruit which belongs to family Arecaceae. India stands first in the world in terms of its wealth of palmyrah palm with a population nearly 122 million palms. The fruits, fruit sap, young tuberous seedlings of palmyrah palm are used as food. Despite this indisputable utility, with the exception of coconut, arecanut, date and oil palm, somewhat less attention has been given to the improvement of palms as compared to other tree crops. An experiment was conducted at BAU, Sabour during the year 2016-2017 to study the biochemical properties of Palmyrah palm fruit collected from Bhagalpur district. The finding had shown that TSS differed significantly among the different accession of palmyrah fruit and highest TSS was recorded in AC-3 (15.96 oBrix). Maximum acidity was found in AC-3 i.e. 0.97% and minimum in AC-13. Results also revealed significant variation in Total sugar, reducing sugar and non reducing sugar among all the accession of palmyrah fruit. Result revealed that phenols and carotenoids have been found non significant in palmyrah fruit but fruit is good source of carotenoids.