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Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is a tropical
perennial plant and starchy root of cassava is the
majour source of carbohydrates for approximately 800
million people in developing regions of the tropics.
Although cassava production has increased drastically
in last decade in Sri Lanka still there are no significant
studies have been conducted to analyse the proximate
compositions of recommended cassava varieties in Sri
Lanka. The purpose of the current study was to analyse
the proximate in the flesh and peel of the Cassava
variety “MU-51”. The root peel had significantly high
amount (p<0.05) of moisture (70.80±0.09), fat
(0.42±0.06) and fibre(1.74±0.03) content than the flesh.
The root flesh contain high amount of ash(1.26±0.04)
and protein(1.13±0.19) than the peel even though the
difference was not significant (P>0.05). There was
significant negative correlation ship(p<0.05) exist in
between Moisture flesh versus carbohydrate flesh and
moisture peel versus protein flesh, fat flesh versus
protein flesh and significantly positive correlation ship
(p<0.05) exist among moisture peel versus fat flesh.
