Abstract: India is endowed with a wide variety of plants both wild and domesticated which contribute not only to the diet of its people but obtain several valuable products like medicines, dyes, etc. nutritional contribution and the nutritive value of fruits and leaves has been already studied extensively for the intake to local population. Barks of trees have not been used in many plants specially the common trees. Although the nutritive value of these plants are not precisely known, since most indigenous trees are not cultivated on farms These are good source of macronutrients, micronutrients, etc. for determining the NV the macronutrients namely proteins, sugars and lipids have to be detected and quantified. Here the analysis has been done for Myrtaceae family as it has number of commonly seen trees.eg. Jamun, Guava, etc Jamun are the common avenue trees. Psidium guajava (guava) has been analysed to contain maximum proteins and sugars as compared to Syzgium cumini (jamun). While the lipids are very low in both the cases. Due to this the NV of guava is significantly high hence it is called “poor man’s apple of the tropics’’. The results suggest that the bark could be used significantly to the nutrient intake of local population specially the third world countries in the alternative medicines
Keywords: Psidium guajava, Syzgium cumini, macronutrients, Nutritive Value, alternative medicine.
Title: Determine the Nutritive Value in the Bark of Common Trees in the Family Myrtaceae
Author: F.K.Pandey, Tripti Bhatnagar, Sumita Bhatnagar
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-3148 (online), ISSN2348-313X (Print)
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