Rice Landrace Varieties and Fatty Acid Diversity: Profiling of Fatty Acid Variability of Parboiled and Un-parboiled Abakaliki Rice Landraces in Nigeria

Rice (Oryza sativa) is among Nigeria's top priority staple crops that play a role in food security and livelihood resilience within the household. Different varieties of rice landraces are grown Nigeria; Abakaliki Ebonyi State consumed almost all parts country. This study evaluated fatty acid composition parboiled un-parboiled landraces. The GC-MS analysis revealed myristic, myristoleic, oleic, linoleic vaccenic acids were most dominant In addition, samples contain total amount (34.45%), oleic (33.36%) myristic (21.68%) acid, however myristoleic (3.3%) (7.5%) low amount. reveals these 63.82% higher cultivars than rice.