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NUTRIENT COMPOSITION, PHENOLIC CONTENT AND FREE RADICAL SCAVENGING ACTIVITY OF SOME UNCOMMON VEGETABLES OF PAKISTAN

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dc.contributor.author KHATTAK, KHANZADI FATIMA
dc.date.accessioned 2023-01-20T07:24:00Z
dc.date.available 2023-01-20T07:24:00Z
dc.date.issued 2011-07-20
dc.identifier.citation Khattak, K. F. (2011). Nutrient composition, phenolic content and free radical scavenging activity of some uncommon vegetables of Pakistan. Pakistan journal of pharmaceutical sciences, 24(3). en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1011-601X
dc.identifier.uri http://142.54.178.187:9060/xmlui/handle/123456789/16376
dc.description.abstract Vegetables play a vital role in the prevention of human disease and in the improvement of general health as these contain vitamins, amino acids, fiber, antioxidants and minerals. In the present study, some less familiar vegetables of Pakistan namely chickpea (leaves), chungah (shoots), drumstick tree (inflorescences), radish (fruit pods), mountain ebony (flower buds), mustard (leaves), purslane (leaves) and white goosefoot (leaves and shoots) were evaluated for proximate composition, mineral content, phenolic content and free radical scavenging activity. The protein, fat, fiber, carbohydrate and ash contents of the selected vegetables were in the range of 2.9 to 6.6%, 0.2 to 2.5%, 2.4 to 8.6%, 9.7 to 20.1% and 1.0 to 2.3%, respectively. The concentration of vitamin C ranged between 32.6 to 120.1 mg/100 g. The phosphorus, calcium, iron, zinc, manganese,magnesium and copper were 190 to 3400, 103 to 987, 19 to 93, 12 to 47, 9 to 121, 299 to 1635 and nondetectable level to 42 mg/kg, respectively. The amount of total phenolic content varied from 55.3 to 221.0 mg/gin the dry methanolic extracts of the studied plants. The EC50 values were below 1400 µg/ml, indicating that all the studied vegetables have good scavenging effect on DPPH radical. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Karachi:Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, university of Karachi. en_US
dc.subject Vegetables en_US
dc.subject nutrients en_US
dc.subject phenolic content en_US
dc.subject antioxidant activity en_US
dc.title NUTRIENT COMPOSITION, PHENOLIC CONTENT AND FREE RADICAL SCAVENGING ACTIVITY OF SOME UNCOMMON VEGETABLES OF PAKISTAN en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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