Fiber content vitamin c content and leaf color of green and blanched chinese chive are shown in table 4.
the crude fiber content of the blanched leaf harvest was 1.5-1.6 these levels were much lower than the corresponding values for the green leaf harvest
vitamin c content ranged from 21-25 in the green chinese chive and 6-8 in the blanched chinese chive
the leaf color of the green leaf was G138 A (green hue.) while the leaf color of the blanched leaf was creamy yellow, Y2C-Y2D(yellow hue)
Blanched leaves were yellow due to the lack of chlorophyll, and would contain a low amount of protochlorophyllide: this is the next to last precursor for chlorophyll that requires light and binding to protochlorophyllide reductase to be converted into chlorophyll