PJB-2021-398
A study of wild vegetables: proximate and mineral analysis of selected wild edible vegetables of Parachinar, district Kurram KP, Pakistan
Wajiha Batool, Wahid Hussain, Ravena Hassan, Tasleem, Shariat Ullah and Amjad Ali
Abstract
Wild vegetables have a crucial role in human life in connection with diet, medicine or other domestic uses. The five wild vegetables, i.e., Bistorta amplexicaulis, Chenopodium album, Nasturtium officinale, Citrullus colocynthis and Polygonum plebejum, were collected from the District Kurram of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, to estimate the mineral and nutritional composition of these plants. For the analysis of the nutritional composition, Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) methods and for minerals, atomic spectrometric methods were used. Chenopodium album showed the highest content of both moisture and nitrogen-free extract (15.12% and 72.97% respectively), while the ash content was highest in Nasturtium officinale (21%). In Polygonum plebejum, crude fiber content was the highest (12.74%), and the crude fat and protein content was the highest in Nasturtium officinale and Bistorta amplexicaulis (8.49% and 12.25%). The highest amount among all the minerals shown is Ca (102.7 mg/L) followed by K, Mg and Fe, (77.15, 17.26 and 2.964 mg/L). Among all proximate analysis and minerals content, only minor variations were observed. Agreement was found when the results were compared to other studies with slight differences, which might be due to climatic and regional conditions.
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Batool, W., W. Hussain, R. Hassan, Tasleem, S. Ullah and A. Ali. 2023. A study of wild vegetables: proximate and mineral analysis of selected wild edible vegetables of Parachinar, district Kurram KP, Pakistan. Pak. J. Bot., 55(1): DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30848/PJB2023-1(21)
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