1Beijing Engineering Technology Research Center of Food Safety Immune Rapid Detection, Beijing, 102206, China
2College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing-100193, China
Beijing University of Agriculture, Beijing Laboratory of Food Quality and Safety, Beijing Key Laboratory of Agricultural Product Detection and Control for Spoilage Organisms and Pesticide, Beijing-102206, China
*Corresponding author's E-mail: zhanghx511@126.com
Online published on 10 August, 2016.
Flowering peach trees, whose flowers have not be used and result in lot of waste of resources. This paper detected 18 kinds of amino acids and eight trace elements to provide data support for resource utilization of flowering peach blossom. Results showed that two amino acids (Asp and Pro) were higher than 2.0%, Glu, Lys, Leu, Ala and Val were more than 1.0% in flowers of flowering peach, especially Pro was the highest. Flowers of flowering peach contain many kinds of mineral elements, Mg, Ca, K and Mn were very high, which is beneficial for human health. All these data proved that flowers of flowering peach have high value as foods.
Amino acids, flowering peach trees, flowers, trace elements
