Nutritional assessment of some selected wild edible plants as a good source of mineral

Shivprasad Mahadkar, Sujata Va

Abstract

Wild edible plants play an important role in human diet. The objective of the study was to evaluate nutrional composition of wild edible plants viz. Ensete Superbum (Roxb.) Cheesuran, Gmelina arborea Roxb, Oroxylum indicum (L.),Vent, Bauhinia recemosa Lam. Caryota urens L, Smilax zeylanica L, Woodfordia fruticosa (L.) Kurz, Commelina benghalensis L, Garcinia indica (Du Petit-Thou.) Choisy, Zanthoxylum rhetsa (Roxb.) DC. The amount of calcium is found to be higher in all plants followed by nitrogen, sodium, potassium and phosphorus etc, whereas the amount of iron is higher than copper, zinc and manganese etc in all plants.