Morpho-physiological, proximate composition and antioxidant activity of Flacourtia jangomas (Lour.) Raeus
The North Eastern part of India is one of the biodiversity hot spots of the World and is endowed with many indigenous fruit crops. Many of these fruit are often underutilized for their nutritional composition and marketability as compared to commercial fruit. These fruit provide livelihood and nutri...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Indian journal of plant physiology 2022-03, Vol.27 (1), p.56-64 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The North Eastern part of India is one of the biodiversity hot spots of the World and is endowed with many indigenous fruit crops. Many of these fruit are often underutilized for their nutritional composition and marketability as compared to commercial fruit. These fruit provide livelihood and nutritional security to native dwellers.
Flacourtia jangomas
is one such underutilized fruit found to be growing under semi wild condition in Assam, North East India and very limited information is available on physiological and biochemical characteristics of this fruit. The present study was conducted to study tree morphology, flowering and fruiting behavior as well as nutritional aspects of
Flacourtia jangomas
. Results revealed considerable variation in leaf traits, flowering behavior, fruit and seed characters. Biochemical profiling of fruit revealed the presence of moderate amount of crude fat (0.60%), significant amount of crude fibre (1.13%), crude protein (6.04%), carbohydrate (89.73%), energy (388.43 kcal 100 g
−1
, total soluble sugar (13.77%), reducing sugar (9.82%), riboflavin (236.84 µg 100 g
−1
)and thiamine (42.97 µg 100 g
−1
). The fruit exhibited good amount of antioxidant activities (8.93% mg
−1
) due to presence of ascorbic acid (24.00 mg 100 g
−1
) and phenol (1.28 mg 100 g
−1
). The study showed significant presence of phosphorous (133.39 mg 100 g
−1
), sodium (73.66 mg 100 g
−1
), potassium (1554.19 mg 100 g
−1
) and other minor minerals like calcium, sodium, magnesium, iron, manganese, copper and zinc. |
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ISSN: | 2662-253X 0019-5502 2662-2548 0974-0252 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s40502-022-00644-1 |