Evaluation of the Potential of Duckweed as a Human Food, Bioethanol Production Feedstock, and Antileukaemia Drug

Table 1

Main components of wild duckweed.

Duckweed	Content	Essential amino acids (% DW)		Nonessential amino acids (% DW)
Moisture (% FW)	91.74 ± 0.47	Threonine	0.38 ± 0.02	Aspartic acid	0.91 ± 0.17
C% (% DW)	38.77 ± 0.26	Valine	0.45 ± 0.01	Serine	0.38 ± 0.02
N% (% DW)	3.97 ± 0.32	Methionine	0.15 ± 0.00	Glutamic acid	0.93 ± 0.07
C/N	9.77 ± 0.08	Isoleucine	0.34 ± 0.01	Glycine	0.45 ± 0.02
Crude protein (% DW)	24.80 ± 0.36	Leucine	0.71 ± 0.03	Alanine	0.53 ± 0.03
Starch (% DW)	8.97 ± 1.88	Phenylalanine	0.45 ± 0.01	Cystine	0.10 ± 0.01
Soluble sugar (% DW)	1.44 ± 0.09	Lysine	0.47 ± 0.02	Tyrosine	0.32 ± 0.02
Ash (% DW)	8.97 ± 0.01	Histidine	0.15 ± 0.01	Arginine	0.48 ± 0.02
TAAs (% DW)	7.50 ± 0.44			Proline	0.34 ± 0.01