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Duckweeds as Promising Food Feedstocks Globally

Debora Pagliuso
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Adriana Grandis
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Janaina Silva Fortirer
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Plinio Camargo
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Eny Ioshevet Floh
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Marcos Silveira Buckeridge
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Version 1 : Received: 1 January 2022 / Approved: 6 January 2022 / Online: 6 January 2022 (10:24:50 CET)

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Pagliuso, D.; Grandis, A.; Fortirer, J.S.; Camargo, P.; Floh, E.I.S.; Buckeridge, M.S. Duckweeds as Promising Food Feedstocks Globally. Agronomy 2022, 12, 796. Pagliuso, D.; Grandis, A.; Fortirer, J.S.; Camargo, P.; Floh, E.I.S.; Buckeridge, M.S. Duckweeds as Promising Food Feedstocks Globally. Agronomy 2022, 12, 796.

Abstract

Duckweeds are the smallest flowering plants on Earth. They grow fast on water's surface and produce large amounts of biomass. Further, duckweeds display high adaptability, and species are found around the globe growing under different environmental conditions. In this work, we report the composition of 21 ecotypes of fourteen species of duckweeds belonging to the two sub-families of the group (Lemnoideae and Wolffioideae). It is reported the presence of starch and the composition of soluble sugars, cell walls, amino acids, phenolics, and tannins. These data were combined with literature data recovered from 85 publications to produce a compiled analysis that affords the examination of duckweeds as possible food sources for human consumption. We compare duckweeds compositions with some of the most common food sources and conclude that duckweed, which is already in use as food in Asia, can be an interesting food source anywhere in the world.

Keywords

duckweed; meal; Lemnoideae,; Wolffioideae; aquaculture; carbohydrates; protein

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Agricultural Science and Agronomy

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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