Nutritive and medicinal value of dragon fruit

Determination of Nutritive Value and Mineral Elements of some Important Medicinal Plants from Western Part of India

  Background: Medicinal plants viz Tinospora cordifolia (Gulvel), Gymnema sylvester (Morasingi), Tricholepis glaberrima (Brahmdandi) are very important for treatment of diabetes mellitus and other various diseases. These plants have great importance due to their nutritive value and major source of medicines as they have been found through out human history  Objective: Evaluation of Nutritive va...

Nutritive Value of Sawdust

The present study was undertaken to observe the chemical composition of different types of sawdust available in the urban and peri-urban areas of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Twenty different types of sawdust from different plants were collected from study areas. Chemical analyses of the samples were carried out in triplicate for moisture, dry matter (DM), metabolizable energy (ME), crude protein (C...

Antinutrtional Factors, Nutritive Value and in vitro Gas Production of Foliage and Fruit of Enterolobium cyclocarpum

Enterolobium cyclocarpum foliage is yet to be accepted by ruminants in Nigeria as recommended for intensive garden use. In a comparative study, the nutritive value of the leaf, seed, pod and fruit was investigated by proximate, secondary metabolites and in vitro gas production methods. Proximate composition showed that all the samples were quite high in crude protein (10.4-21.7%), ether extract...

Nutritive Value of Rice

The effect of mineral fertilization on nutritive value and biological activity of chokeberry fruit

The aim of the study was to assess whether an extra fertilization with manganese, commercial fertilizer Alkalin (N, K and Si), and combined treatment (manganese + Alkalin) affect the chemical composition of chokeberry fruits (Aronia melanocarpa (Michx) Elliot), especially sugar content and the quantity and profile of phenolics. Dry weight, soluble solids, titratable acidity, total sugar, reduci...