Chemical and Functional Properties of Food Saccharides

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Wood from Trees
Deciduous (beech) 3.9
Softwood (spruce) 2.5f 8.2 — 1.1 0.8 9 6.5
ca. 27 for
fossil oil
substitutes
ca. 20 for
fertilizer
a The FRG considered representative for central Europe (Benelux, Poland, Austria, Slovenia or Baltic States).
b When processed in green refineries (2B AG-type).
c Assuming 60% saccharides in DM (including water-soluble sugars) and about 30% lignin and ash.
d Other varieties Poa pratensis, Aleopecurus sp., Lolium hybridicum, Dactylis glomerata, Trisetum flavescens L., etc., altogether 10,000 species ordered into 600 genera
including all cereals, sugar cane (perennial) and bamboo(growing up to 80 feet high in two or three months!)
e Sudan grass presently emerges as a powerful energy crop; acreage unknown.
f Usable wood (biomass much larger); personal communication Patt, R., University of Hamburg, July 24, 2002.