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Indian Journal of Nutrition

Research Article

Nutritional Composition of Buchnania Lanzan Seeds Collected From Candidate plus Trees

Khobragade ND* and Kumbhare V

Forest Research Centre for Skill Development, Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, India
*Corresponding author: Khobragade ND, Forest Research Centre for Skill Development, Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, India; E-mail: nagesh_khobragade@rediffmail.com
Article Information: Submission: 20/04/2022; Accepted: 13/05/2022; Published: 17/05/2022
Copyright: © 2022 Khobragade ND, et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

The study was carried out to evaluate the nutrition contents of Buchanania lanzan (Chironji) seeds obtained from thirteen candidate plus trees (CPTs) and analyzed for its nutritional composition. It was observed that total carbohydrate content ranged from 3.30g/100g (MPC-11) to 30.83g/100g (MPC-9), fatty oil and the content ranged from 39.7% (MPC-14) to 56.2% (MPC-8), ash content in defatted seeds ranged from 5.4% (MPC-11) to 32% (MPC-3), ascorbic acid content ranged from 9.3 mg/100g (MPC-2, 3, 7, 11, 12) to 17.6 mg/100g (MPC-10), phenol content was 339.6 mg/100g being found in MPC-14 and lowest content of 98.27 mg/100g was observed in MPC-9 and tannin content ranged from 56.60 mg/100g (MPC-9) to 577.3 mg/100g (MPC-8). Trace elements zinc content ranged from 1.31 ppm (MPC-12) to 2.12 ppm (MPC-10), Manganese content ranged from 0.44 ppm (MPC-14) to 0.98 ppm (MPC-2), Copper content ranged from 0.37 ppm to 1.28 ppm and Iron content ranged from 3.26 ppm (MPC-11) to 19 ppm (MPC-2). Based on the results obtained from the study, it can be concluded that the seeds of B. lanzan provide good opportunities to develop value added products, dietary supplements and phytotherapeutic compounds. MPC-8 was found to be the best source in respect of oil, carbohydrates and tannin content followed by MPC-10 and MPC-2 for ascorbic acid and trace minerals.