NUTRITIONAL ANALYSIS OF SOME WILD VEGETABLES IN WARDHA DISTRICT
1Rashm I.Chandankhede, 2Nayana S.Shirbhate, 3Arati Pranjale-Ghuse
1ResearchScholar , Vidya Vikas Arts, Commerce & Science College, SamudrapurDist-Wardha 442305
2Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Vidya Vikas Arts, Commerce & Science College, Samudrapur Dist. Wardha 442301
3Ramkrishna Bajaj Agriculture college, Wardha pipri
ABSTRACT: Wild edible plants (WEPs) are the species that are neither cultivated nor domesticated, but available from their natural habitat and used as a source of food. Wild edible plants play a major role in meeting the nutritional requirement of the rural population. The use of wild plants by human as a source of food is in practice since time immemorial. wild vegetables are the fresh and edible parts of herbaceous plants. It may include roots, stems, leaves, fruits or seed of the plants that can be eaten as raw or cooked from vegetables are a major parts of daily food intake by human with their main dishes all over the world. Wild vegetables known for their essential biochemicals and nutritional importance as they contained good amount of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals, besides these, moisture, fiber, ash, and energy provided by individual vegetables are important for good health and prevention of disease. In Wardha region most of the villagers consumed the wild leafy vegetables as their daily diet. But factual observation is that most of the citizen’s people were not interested to eat the wild vegetables as their regular diet. In this study we demonstrated the wild edible vegetables collected from the Wardha region are the highest source of vitamins and minerals.
Key words: Wild vegetables, Vidarbha region, nutritional analysis, nutritional value.
DOI link – https://doi.org/10.69758/GIMRJ/2504I5VXIIIP0078
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