Crop
Average composition (%)
Storage organ
Protein
Fat
Carbohydrate
Barley
12
3
76
Endosperm
Maize
10
5
88
Oats
13
8
66
Rye
2
Wheat
75
Broad bean
23
1
56
Cotyledons
Pea
25
6
52
Peanut
31
48
Soybean
37
17
26
Castor bean
18
64
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Oil palm
9
49
28
Pine
35
Gametophyte
Rapeseed
21
19
TABLE 16: Food reserves of some crop plants, after BEWLEY and BLACK, 1985
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