Comparative Analysis of Some Vitamins in Fresh Leaves of Cucurbital moschata and Amaranthus hybridus l
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The vitamin compositions of fresh leaves of Cucurbital moschata and Amaranthus hybridus L. were determined through spectrophotometric and titrimetric methods. The investigation revealed that the fresh leaves of Cucurrbital moshcata contained higher amounts (mg/100g) of ascorbic acid (33.49±1.22), thiamine (17.38±2.06) and riboflavin (3.41±0.18) while Amaranthus hybridus contained higher amount (mg/100g) of niacin (6.66±1.77) with corresponding values (mg/kg) of thiamine and tocopherol as 11.41±0.35 and 9.34±0.58 respectively. There were no significant differences in the tocopherol and retinol contents of both samples. The results revealed that Cucurbital moschata could serve a better source of some vitamins than Amaranthus hybridus.L.
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