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Total cyanide determination of plants and foods using the picrate and acid hydrolysis methods

Date

Authors

Haque, Memdadul

Bradbury, James

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

A general method has been developed for determination of the total cyanide content of all cyanogenic plants and foods. Ten cyanogenic substrates (cassava, flax seed, sorghum and giant taro leaves, stones of peach, plum, nectarine and apricot, apple seeds

Keywords

Keywords: amygdalin; cyanide; cyanoglucoside; glucoside; picric acid; sulfuric acid; unclassified drug; accuracy; analytic method; apple; apricot; article; cassava; controlled study; food; germination; hydrolysis; model; nectarine; nonhuman; peach; plant; plant see Acid hydrolysis; Bamboo shoot; Cassava; Cyongenic plants; Flax; Picrate method; Sorghum; Total cyanide

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/70563

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Food Chemistry

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/S0308-8146(01)00313-2

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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