Forty-eight cultivars (44 landraces and 4 hybrids) of white yam (Dioscorea rotundata Poir.) selected as parents for a breeding program in Benin were evaluated for proximate, sugars and mineral composition using standard AOAC methods. | Evaluation of proximate, sugars and mineral compositions of 48 yam (Dioscorea rotundata) cultivars used as parents in a breeding program in republic of Benin