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. 2017 Apr 12;54(7):1891–1900. doi: 10.1007/s13197-017-2622-8

Table 2.

Proximate composition of the lemon seed press meals

Property	Lemon seed meal
Property	Cold pressed	Solvent extracted
Moisture (%)	10.53 ± 0.42^A	11.91 ± 0.65^A
Water activity (25 °C)	0.51 ± 0.02^B	0.69 ± 0.03^A
Ash (%)	2.79 ± 0.04^A	2.57 ± 0.04^B
Oil (%)^a	17.18 ± 0.14^A	5.25 ± 0.62^B
Protein (%)^a	24.59 ± 0.58^A	23.42 ± 0.92^A
Color L	57.10 ± 0.30^B	75.26 ± 0.08^A
a*	5.99 ± 0.22^A	1.72 ± 0.22^B
b*	21.84 ± 0.26^A	18.64 ± 1.01^B

^aValues on dry weight basis

^A,BThe same horizontal rows followed by different superscript letters were significantly different (p < 0.05)