TY - JOUR T1 - Nutritional evaluation of some potential wild edible plants of North Eastern region of India. AU - Talang,Hammylliende, AU - Yanthan,Aabon, AU - Rathi,Ranbir Singh, AU - Pradheep,Kanakasabapathi, AU - Longkumer,Soyimchiten, AU - Imsong,Bendangla, AU - Singh,Laishram Hemanta, AU - Assumi,Ruth S, AU - Devi,M Bilashini, AU - Vanlalruati,, AU - Kumar,Ashok, AU - Ahlawat,Sudhir Pal, AU - Bhatt,Kailash C, AU - Bhardwaj,Rakesh, Y1 - 2023/03/01/ PY - 2022/09/23/received PY - 2023/01/30/accepted PY - 2023/3/20/entrez PY - 2023/3/21/pubmed PY - 2023/3/21/medline KW - antioxidants KW - biodiversity KW - ethnic foods KW - minerals KW - proximate composition SP - 1052086 EP - 1052086 JF - Frontiers in nutrition JO - Front Nutr VL - 10 N2 - Introduction: India's north-eastern hill region (NEH) is one of the biodiversity hotspots, inhabited by several tribal communities still maintaining their traditional food habits. Much of their food resources are drawn from wild sources. Materials and methods: Fourteen species of wild edible plants of high ethnic importance were collected from remote localities of Nagaland and Meghalaya states of the NEH region of India for nutritional profiling. Nutritional profiling of leaves of six species comprising Gynura cusimbua, Garcinia cowa, Herpetospermum operculatum, Plukenetia corniculata, Trichodesma khasianum, and Elatostemma sessile is conducted first time under present study. Samples were analyzed as per the Official Method of Analysis (AOAC) and standard methods. Results and discussion: The range of variation in proximate composition was observed for moisture (72-92%), protein (1.71-6.66%), fat (0.22-1.36%), dietary fibre (5.16-14.58%), sugar (0.30-3.41%), and starch (0.07-2.14%). The highest protein content (6.66%) was recorded in Herpetospermum operculatum, followed by Trichodesma khasianum (5.89%) and Plukenetia corniculata (5.27%). Incidentally, two of these also have high iron (>7.0 mg/100 g) and high zinc (>2.0 mg/100 g) contents, except Trichodesma khasianum, which has low zinc content. High antioxidant activities in terms of gallic acid equivalent (GAE) by the cupric ion reducing antioxidant capacity (CUPRAC) method ranged from 1.10 to 8.40 mg/100 g, and by the Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) method ranged from 0.10 to 1.9 mg/100 g, while phenol content ranged between 0.30 and 6.00 mg/100 g. These wild vegetables have high potential because of their nutritional properties and are fully capable of enhancing sustainability and improving ecosystem services. Efforts were also initiated to mainstream these resources, mainly for widening the food basket of native peoples. SN - 2296-861X UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/36937351/Nutritional_evaluation_of_some_potential_wild_edible_plants_of_North_Eastern_region_of_India_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -