Nutritive values of some new wheat varieties developed by Bangladesh agriculture research institute

Abstract

The present study was designed to investigate tlie nutritive values of different locally
developed Improved varieties of wheat collected from Bangladesh Agriculture
Research Institute (BARI), Ishurdi, Pabna. The nutritive values of the released/
registered varieties were analyzed for moisture, ash, protein, total lipid, crude fibre,
carbohydrate, and calorie content. Nutrient contents of eleven newly developed wheat
varieties have been analyzed by standard methods. From the study it is revealed that
among the 11 varieties GAM-20, Kanchan, BDW-08, and BAW-923 and GAM-19 are
the top five varieties wheat that contain highest energy among the samples studied.
BAW-944 contents lowest amount of energy. Fat content varies from 2.96% to 3.85%
of the samples studied. On the other hand except Protlva, Kanchan, BAT-01 and
BDW-08 all varieties contain protein more than 12%. BAW-936 contains highest
(13.23%) amount of protein. In general carbohydrate content was high in wheat
verities and the highest amount was found in Kanchan variety (73.36%). The results
suggest that, more attention should be given the those varieties for yield and
production o f wheat in large scale, which contain highest percentage of nutritive
values especially GAM-20, GAM-19, BAW-923, Kanchan, BAW-936 and BDW-08.