ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Food Sci. Technol.
Sec. Food Characterization
Volume 5 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frfst.2025.1636295
This article is part of the Research TopicAgro-Morphological and Nutritional Profiling of Crops Vol. 2View all 4 articles
Comparative study of the physicochemical and nutritional characteristics of the grains of two varieties of sesame cultivated in two climatic zones of Burkina Faso
Provisionally accepted
Edwige Bahanla Oboulbiga1*
Zénabou Semdé1Siébou Youl1Fidèle Wend-Bénédo Tapsoba1Fulbert Fulbert2Crépin Ibingou Dibala3Mamoudou Hama Dicko3
Fatoumata Hama Ba1- 1National Center Scientific Research And Technological, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- 23National Agency for Environmental, Food, Occupational and Health Product Safety (ANSSEAT), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- 3Universite Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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In Burkina Faso, sesame is one of the most widely grown oil and rend crops. Several varieties are grown in different regions, but little is known about their nutritional characteristics.The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of the production area on the nutritional characteristics of two sesame varieties grown in Burkina Faso. The biological material consisted of sesame varieties S42 and Humera from two production areas of Burkina Faso. The physicochemical characteristics, macronutrients, and minerals of whole and hulled grains were determined according to standard methods. The study showed a significant difference (p<.05) between the grain samples of the two sesame varieties from the two areas for the weight of 1000 grains, moisture, ash, protein, fat, and carbohydrate contents, and energy values. The color parameters (L*, a*, b*) of the samples did not show any significant difference. The mineral contents of the seeds of the two sesame varieties varied from 95.51±7.07 to 1057.01±7.07 mg/100g for Calcium, 169.32±7.07 to 364.56±7.07 mg/100g for Potassium, 142.52±7.14 to 261.58±1.41 mg/100g for Magnesium, 2.46±7.07 to 4.54±7.07 mg/100g for Zinc, 3.48±7.07 to 9.65±7.07 mg/100g for Iron with a significant difference (p<0.05). There was a significant difference (p <0.05) between the biochemical composition of whole and hulled sesame grains, with a decrease in ash, protein, and mineral contents and an increase in total sugars and fats.This study showed that the production area and hulling have an impact on the physicochemical and nutritional characteristics of the grains of sesame varieties S42 and Humera. In view of their nutritional composition, these two sesame varieties constitute a good source of nutrients.The nutritional potential of sesame will lead to increased consumption of whole or processed sesame, as well as an increase in its production in Burkina Faso.
Keywords: climatic zones of Burkina Faso, Hulling, macronutrients, Minerals, Physicochemical characteristics, Sesame seeds
Received: 27 May 2025; Accepted: 11 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Oboulbiga, Semdé, Youl, Tapsoba, Fulbert, Dibala, Dicko and Hama Ba. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Edwige Bahanla Oboulbiga, National Center Scientific Research And Technological, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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