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Journal of the Austrian Society of Agricultural Economics (JASAE)
Journal ID : JASAE-23-09-2022-177
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Title : NUTRIENTS, ANTINUTRIENTS, THEIR CORRELATIONS AND MINERALS RATIOS IN THE FRUITS OF ORGANICALLY PRODUCED Corchorus olitorius CULTIVARS
by SAMUEL OLORUNFEMI BAIYERI, OLAWALE TAIWO ADENIJI, ELIAS ALEX JADONG, CHIMALUKA CHINELOROMMA AJOKE SAMUEL-BAIYERI,
Abstract : Most neglected, forgotten and under-exploited vegetables may go into extinction except their food, nutritional and nutraceutical potentials are discovered and harnessed. The fruit of Corchorus olitorius is one of its edible portions currently being under-exploited for dietary purposes due to poor awareness of their nutritional and anti-nutritional profiles. In order to unravel the potentials in Corchorus fruit for human nutrition and promote its utilization, organically produced Corchorus fruits were analyzed for nutrients and anti-nutrients, their correlations and mineral ratios using standard analytical procedures. Results showed that the fruits of Corchorus accessions varied significantly (p<0.05) in the nutritional and anti-nutritional parameters investigated. The fruits were rich in calcium, potassium, magnesium and phosphorus had appreciable iron and zinc but low in sodium and copper. The Ca/P ratios ranged from 11.04 to 25.53 while the Na/K was in the range of 0.0184-0.0202. Zinc showed a significantly negative relationship with phytate (r= -0.80**). Magnesium had significantly negative relationship with saponin (r= -0.69*). Crude fibre was significantly and negatively correlated with phytate (r=-0.79**). Dry matter had significantly negative relationship with saponin (-0.67*). The results indicated that the organically produced fruits were nutrient-rich with excellent mineral ratios suggesting their nutritional and nutraceutical potential benefits.

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