PROXIMATE ANALYSIS OF PTEROCARPUS ERINACEUS (AFRICAN ROSE WOOD OR AFRICAN GUM-ILHA)
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2013-11-14
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Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic Zaria
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Plants are excellent sources of food nutrients needed by man and his animals for survival, the proportions to which each of the food nutrient occurs in each plant is
uncertained. A method qf assessing the levels or concentrations of ash, moisture, lipid, crude fibre, crude protein, and carbohydrate in the leaves ofin pterocarpus erinaceus (African Rose wood-uha) has been drawn by means of proximate
analysis using some analytical grade reagents and apparatus following the described methods of AOAC (1990). Based on the results obtained, the percentage compositions of moisture, ash, lipid, crude protein, crude fibre and carbohydrate contents were: 16.00, 14.00, 21.00 28.56, 10.00 and 10.44% respectively. These food nutrients are of great importance to our bodies and are within the recommended values by WHO/FDA/FAO. It has been recommended that
pterocarpus erinaceus leaves should form part of our daily meals and more research should be encouraged on the phytonutrients, dietary minerals or heavy metals as well as antimicrobial activity of the plant leaves