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Explain the Kinds of Stored Foods ?



Explain the Kinds of Stored Foods ?..

Answer / tanu pal

Food which is stored in different organs of plants is of various forms. This food material includes starch, glucose, sucrose, inulin, glycogen as carbohydrates. Fats and oils are found in almost all living cells. In oily seeds very little of carbohydrates is found. Food is stored as proteins in the form of Aleurone grains which are found abundantly in oily seeds. Pulses Are rich in proteins.

Large amount of food is stored up in endorsperm and cotyledons of seed. This stored food is used up by embryo for its growth. Food is stored is stored here in insoluble form, it is firstly changed into simple form which is soluble. This conversion is die to action of certain enzymes Cereals e.g. rice, maize, wheat, oat, barley etc. are rich in starch. On the cell walls of endosperm reserve cellulose is deposited e.g. date plams, betal-nut-palm,. There is a great deposition of oils in seeds of coconut, castor, sunflower, groundnut etc. Soybean has maximum amount of proteins. About 35% proteins are present in soybeans oily seed such as castor seed also contains a high percentage of proteins.

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