Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
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Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Ethiopia Institute of Agriculture Research, Wondo Genet, Ethiopia

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• Research Article   
  Evaluation of Nutritional Properties of dried Moringa (Moringa stenopetala) Leaves and Dried Moringa Leaves Infusion
  Author(s): Abdela Befa*, Abadi Gebre and Tesfu Bekele
  
  Moringa demand is currently increased in Ethiopia due to its nutritional and medicinal values. However, there is no as such information about their dried leaves and infusion nutritional properties. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the dried leaves and infusion nutritional properties. The dried leaves of Moringa were characterized for proximate, minerals, phytochemicals, and antioxidants. The result shows dried Moringa leaf had 6 g/100 g moisture, 11.2 g/100 g ash, 25.3 g/100 g crude protein, 6.9 g/100 g crude fat, 9.3 g/100 g crude fiber, 41.30 g/100 g carbohydrate, 1300.7 mg/100 g Ca, 128.9 mg/100 g Na, 330.9 mg/100 g K, 1056.6 mg/100 g Mg, 47.7 mg/100 g Fe, 1.8 mg/100 g Zn, 0.8 mg/100 g Cu, 3.4 mg/100 g Mn, 2.6 mg GAE*/g total phenolic content, 11.9 mg CE/g total flavonoid content, 3.3 mg CE/g Condensed tannin content, 0.48 (IC-50, g/mL) DPPH scav.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2167-0412.20.9.363

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