IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

STUDY OF DIFFERENT ELEMENTS IN GREEN LEAFY AYURVEDIC VEGETABLES FROM FRESH AND DRAINAGE WATER

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Shailaja Mahadappa, B R Kerur

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The green leafy Ayurvedic vegetable medicinal plants have multiple applications for human beings in daily life. Worldwide these samples finds applications as basic remedies for the different diseases from ancient time and also in using as kitchen king materials. At the time of corona, the green leafy Ayurvedic vegetable medicinal plants acted as immunity booster and anti-medicines in the form of cashaya for virus. So, this present study focus on green leafy Ayurvedic vegetable medicinal plants which are collected from Bidar, Kalaburagi and Yadgir districts of Kalyan Karnataka. Here Apiaceae families two samples namely Anethum graveolens and Coriander are selected and collected from fresh and drainage water from different places of Bidar, Kalaburagi and Yadgir districts for the analysis of actual quantity of elements present in the samples by energy absorption and emission methods. Further the samples are prepared by using the standard procedure of WHO/FAO and analyzed the eleven essential elements in the samples namely Mg, Al, K, Cr, Mn, Fe, Cu, Zn, As, Hg and Pb. The present study noticed that average range of quantitative variations of elements in Bidar samples is 0.01 ppm to 38.62 ppm and in kalaburagi samples is 0.01ppm to 33.95 ppm also in Yadgir samples is 0.01 ppm to 30.84 ppm. These ranges of elemental content in vegetables are very essential for physical and chemical growth of human beings and also used as raw materials of new innovative research

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