Table 1.

Chemical composition of rice and sweet potato waste streams used in this study.

		(% DM)
Substrate	% DM 1	Starch	Protein	Ash	Cellulose	Hemicellulose	Lignin
Broken rice	88.11	77.74	8.31	0.47	0.22	0.54	-
Discolored rice	87.87	84.61	8.02	0.50	0.11	0.90	-
Unripe rice	87.87	68.58	9.86	1.54	1.80	3.68	-
Purple sweet potato	33.88	55.79	7.70	4.51	3.22	1.65	0.79
White sweet potato	29.37	44.66	7.17	3.74	3.31	1.07	0.60

¹ DM: dry matter.