Authors : A D Padwal, S N Varpe, M B Waman
Page Nos : 193-195
Description :
In nature, there are many underutilized plants of promising nutritive value, which can nourish the ever increasing human population. They haveremained underutilized due to the lack of awareness and popularization of technology. People’s diet offers a greater and more diverse group of plant bioactive than do drugs and they often do not realize that many drugs are derived from the compounds which are originally discovered in plants. Plants play an important part in maintaining general good health owing to the presence of nutritional and phytochemical property. All these substances help to protect the body process, on which vitality and good health depend. They also contain a variety of bioactive non-nutritive health promoting factors. Most of the plants serve as food but their nutritional and phytochemical potential has not been overlooked. The present study was to analyze the preliminary phytochemical and nutritional analysis of Caralluma fimbriata L. It is an ethnomedicinal and nutritional plant used for different ailments in the tribal regions of Sangamner tehsil of Ahmednagar district (MS) India. This study reveals the presence of Steroid, Caumarin, Protein, Carbohydrates, Diterpenes, Phytosterol, Flavonoids, Saponins and alkaloids. The nutritional analysis shows the rich amount of mineral and elemental substances. Present study gives an alternative source for pharmaceutical and nutraceuticals industries.
Keywords: Phytochemical, Nutritional, Caralluma fimbriata, Pharmaceutical, Nutraceuticals.
