Potato Lab Report

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Abstract Potato (Solanum tuberosum L) is one of the most widely used as a staple food crop for human diets. It is an excellent source of minerals. In this study, contents of Ca, Mg, Fe, Zn, Cd and Pb in potato cultivars cultivated in Yilmana Densa and Mecha districts of West Gojjam zone, Ethiopia were determined by flame atomic absorption spectrometry. A 0.50 g oven-dried potato sample was digested using a mixture of 10 mL HNO3:HClO4 (4:1 v/v) at 120 °C for 3 h. The concentration ranges in dry weight basis in decreasing order were: Mg (420 – 438 mg/kg) > Ca (176 – 254 mg/kg) > Fe (27.3 – 90.4 mg/kg) > Zn (20.6 – 77.7 mg/kg) > (2.00 – 17.4 mg/kg) for Pb. The toxic heavy metal Cd was below the limit of detection in all the analyzed samples (< 0.1…show more content…
Table 3 Comparison of determined metals concentration (mg/kg) and dry mass basis) with reported values Metals Concentration of metal in mg/kg reported in respective country Spaina USAb Turkeyc Australiad Ethiopiae Mg 117 – 361 142 – 359 - - 420 – 438 Ca 13.2 – 127 455 – 1300 - - 176– 254 Fe 7.3 – 14.1 3.0 – 23.0 48.9 – 72.6 - 27.3 – 90.4 Zn 3.0 – 4.9 - 13.8 – 18.9 90 – 110 20.6 – 77.7 Pb - - 0.51 – 0.77 50.0 – 54.0 2.0 – 17.4 Cd - - 0.08 – 0.32 0.40 – 1.0 < 0.1 aLuis et al. 2011; bNavarre et al. 2009; cOzturk et al. 2011; dAngelova et al. 2010; eThis

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