NPK values of just about anything

[YumYum]

In case anyone wants to figure up other things such as food products, you can go to a site like this:

SELF: Health, Fitness, Nutrition, Beauty, Love, and Culture

Here for you.

nutritiondata.self.com

Search for a food item such as raw bananas. This happens to be the meat not the peels.

Select 100 grams serving size to make calculations easier but I usually use the biggest serving size.

Scroll down to Phosphorus and it is 22 milligrams or 0.022 grams.
0.022 grams / 100 grams serving size = 0.00022 or 0.022% Phosphorus by weight.

Scroll down to Potassium and it is 358 mg or 0.358 grams.
0.358 / 100 = 0.00358 or 0.358% Potassium by weight.

Scroll to Protein and it is 1.1g. This one is a little trickier since protein is about 16% nitrogen so:
1.1 g x 0.16 = 0.176 g of Nitrogen. Then,
0.176 / 100 = 0.00176 or 0.176% Nitrogen by weight.

 

[YumYum]

@Chuck That link you posted has been moved or deleted. Not sure if you can update the link or not.

 

[DirtMechanic]

Just for fun and fire, this fellow extracts the potassium from 10Kg og bananas into its concentrated form.

 

[Meadowlark]

In case anyone wants to figure up other things such as food products, you can go to a site like this:

SELF: Health, Fitness, Nutrition, Beauty, Love, and Culture

Here for you.

nutritiondata.self.com

I couldn't get that link to work?

I'm highly interested in seeing the numbers for certain covers, e.g specifically Sunn Hemp, alfalfa, soybeans, field peas, Austrian peas, elbon rye, clovers, various cereal grains, etc. Not the amount of nitrogen fixing they do...I have found that information...rather I'm interested in their make up as green manure/mulch.

Appreciate any links on that.

 

[YumYum]

Link appears to not work now for some reason. Must be their server but there are other sites you can look up food nutrition. Those are mainly useful for composting to get an ideal of what you are putting in the pile. Here is another site: https://www.nutritionvalue.org/

Here is crimson clover. Look under nutritional aspects and nutritional aspects. There are other things posted there not exactly sure what.

 

[Steve @ Celtic Farm]

Thanks Chuck.. Great resource.

 

[Meadowlark]

@Chuck I can't get that original link to work anymore?

Here is one that works for me.

Organic NPK values | The Nutrient Company

aka The NPK value of everything organic, is the totally [un]comprehensive database of organic compost and fertiliser NPK values. Absolute Manure!

www.thenutrientcompany.com

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

Never thought of feathers as fertilizer before

 

[Chuck]

@Chuck I can't get that original link to work anymore?

Here is one that works for me.

Organic NPK values | The Nutrient Company

aka The NPK value of everything organic, is the totally [un]comprehensive database of organic compost and fertiliser NPK values. Absolute Manure!

www.thenutrientcompany.com

Its the same one. Same company, new website.

 

[big rockpile]

This wiki list is laid out as follows;

Source Material, N, P2O5, K2O, CaO, MgO, SO2, Comment

Bloodmeal 13.0% 2.0% 1.0% 0.5% – –
Bone ashes – 35.0% – 46.0% 1.0% 0.5%
Bonemeal 4.0% 22.5% – 33.0% 0.5% 0.5%
Hoof / Hornmeal 14.0% 1.0% – 2.5% – 2.0%
Fishmeal 9.5% 7.0% – 0.5% – –
Wool waste 3.5% 0.5% 2.0% 0.5% – –
Wood ashes – 2.0% 5.0% 33.0% 3.5% 1.0%
Cottonseedashes – 5.5% 27.0% 9.5% 5.0% 2.5%
Cottonseed meal 7.0% 3.0% 2.0% 0.5% 0.5% –
Dried locustor grasshopper 10.0% 1.5% 0.5% 0.5% – –
Leatherwaste 5.5% to 22% – – – – – Milled to a fine dust.[36]
Kelp meal, liquid seaweed 1% – 12% – – – Commercial products available.
Poultrymanure 2% to 5% 2.5% to 3% 1.3% to 3% 4.0% 1.0% 2.0% A liquid compostwhich is sieved to remove solids and checked for pathogens.[35]
Sheepmanure 2.0% 1.5% 3.0% 4.0% 2.0% 1.5% Same as poultry manure.
Goatmanure 1.5% 1.5% 3.0% 2.0% – – Same as poultry manure.
Horsemanure 3% to 6% 1.5% 2% to 5% 1.5% 1.0% 0.5% Same as poultry manure.
Cowmanure 2.0% 1.5% 2.0% 4.0% 1.1% 0.5% Same as poultry manure.
Bat guano 8.0% 40% 29% Trace Trace Trace High in micronutrients.[36]Commercially available.
Bird guano 13% 8% 20% Trace Trace Trace High in micronutrients. Commercially available.

Wouldn’t let me into the original but a plant can take in only so much but actually you are not feeding the plant.

big rockpile