Influence of Introduction on Seed-Oil and Pulp Compositions of Cereal Varieties of Amaranthus hypochondriacus

Seed oil, pressed oil, and pulp oil from three varieties of Amaranthus hypochondriacus, Lera, Gelios, and Khar′kovskii-1, introduced into Uzbekistan were characterized for the first time. The contents of oil in seeds and squalene in pressed oils did not differ significantly. These parameters in the introduced variety Khar′kovskii-1 were slightly less than those in the analogous varieties growing in the Russian Federation (RF). It was found that pressed oils and pulp oils contained different sets of fatty acids (FAs). Pressed oil of the introduced variety Lera differed from that of the analogous European variety by higher contents of monoenoic and lower contents of polyenoic FAs.