Table 3.
Solid Fraction (Press Cake) | Cellulose (% w/w) | Hemicellulose (% w/w) | Lignin (% w/w) | |||||
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Glucose | Total | Xylose | Galactose | Arabinose | Mannose | Insoluble | Soluble | |
Stems | 23.88 a ± 0.22 | 20.68 ± 0.34 | 11.05 b ± 0.22 | 3.24 a ± 0.05 | 3.67 a ± 0.10 | 2.72 a ± 0.02 | 24.25 b ± 1.31 | 3.03 a ± 0.11 |
Peels | 17.41 b ± 1.73 | 19.96 ± 0.38 | 13.80 a ± 0.19 | 2.76 b ± 0.04 | 2.53 b ± 0.38 | 0.91 b ± 0.14 | 25.66 a ± 1.20 | 3.61 a ± 0.26 |
a, b The differences between the means in the same column labeled with different superscripts are statistically significant (p > 0.05). Analysis of variance was used to estimate the differences between samples. Shapiro–Wilk test was used. Values were expressed as average ± standard deviation.