For seeds the water is indispensable to maintenance of biochemical processes responsible for life, as a constituent of plasma, as a solvent and a vehicle to mineral nutrients. To know the seeds water content for its harvest and to monitor it during the processing and storage processes, it is essential the availability of precise and fast determination methods. This work had as objective to characterize the sucupira-preta and pé-de-anta seeds, as well as to select a stove method for water contend determination. In the
24.5g (40.766 seeds/kg) as sucupira-preta 1000 seeds weight, as well as 24.6g (40.683 seeds/kg)
for pé-de-anta seeds. The biometrics data for sucupira-preta and pé-de-anta fruits presented the
median value of 4.1cm, 10.0cm and 17.5cm, 5.9cm for length and width respectively. The biometrics
data of de sucupira-preta and pé-de-anta seeds presented the median value of 4.8cm, 3.4cm, 2.2cm
and 8.5cm, 8.9cm, 1.1cm for length, width and thickness respectively. For the water contend
determination were evaluated the stove methods with 103±2°C for hours, 105±3°C for 24 hours
and 130-133°C for on hour, all using whole seeds. The experimental design was the completely
randomized, in factorial arrangement with four repetitions of approximately 1.0g of seeds each,
being used dry and moist seeds. The methods presented results significantly different, however
the water contend determination methods using stove at 103±2°C for 17 hours, 105±3°C for 24
hours and 130-133°C for one hour showed low degree of precision for sucupira-preta moist seeds.
For pé-de-anta dry seeds, the stove method at 103±2°C for 17 hours presented the lower precision.