General chemical and amino acid compositions of the most widespread oil crops of Brassicaceae family (review)

Cultivation of oil crops of Brassicaceae family is an important part of agricultural production in many countries. Currently, interest to Brassicaceae crops is caused with their high productivity, diverse fatty-acid composition of oil of the modern cultivars, and a possibility to use them by various ways. Vegetable oils produced from Brassicaceae crops are, on the one hand, a basis of a rational human nutrition, on the other hand, this is a necessary raw material for the different industries. A balance between general chemical and amino acid compositions of protein allows using it in production of compound animal feeds and foods based on vegetable protein, having high nutritional value and useful technological characteristics (oil, protein, and essential amino acids contents). This paper presents a comparative description and principal features of the general chemical and amino acid composition of some oil crops of the Brassicaceae family. Analysis of the Russian and foreign literary sources proves the importance of further development and studying in this direction with the aim of breeding new cultivars with desired properties and providing domestic food industry with quality and safe products