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Nutritional Evaluation of some Edible Underground Plant Parts Used by the Tribal People of South Odisha, India


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1 Ecology & Floristic Lab., Department of Botany, Berhampur University, Berhampur- 760007, Odisha, India
 

The paper deals with the nutrient analysis of eleven edible underground plant parts of South Odisha, India, most of which are used by the tribal/ rural people at the time of food scarcity. The nutritive value such as crude protein, total sugar, total lipid, vitamin B and vitamin C content of the selected edible underground plant parts were analysed. The plants with edible underground parts collected for nutritional analysis are Amorphophallus paeoniifolius (Dennst.) Nicolson (Amorphophallus campanulatus Decne.), Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott, Curcuma angustifolia Roxb., Dioscorea alata L., D. oppositifolia L., D. wallichii Hook. f. (bulbil and rhizome), Musa × paradisiaca L., Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn., Nymphaea nouchali Burm. f., Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus (L.) Domin (Raphanus sativus L.).

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Edible Underground Plant Parts, Nutritive Value, South Odisha, Tribal People.
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Authors

Sibangini Misra
Ecology & Floristic Lab., Department of Botany, Berhampur University, Berhampur- 760007, Odisha, India
Malaya K. Misra
Ecology & Floristic Lab., Department of Botany, Berhampur University, Berhampur- 760007, Odisha, India

Abstract


The paper deals with the nutrient analysis of eleven edible underground plant parts of South Odisha, India, most of which are used by the tribal/ rural people at the time of food scarcity. The nutritive value such as crude protein, total sugar, total lipid, vitamin B and vitamin C content of the selected edible underground plant parts were analysed. The plants with edible underground parts collected for nutritional analysis are Amorphophallus paeoniifolius (Dennst.) Nicolson (Amorphophallus campanulatus Decne.), Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott, Curcuma angustifolia Roxb., Dioscorea alata L., D. oppositifolia L., D. wallichii Hook. f. (bulbil and rhizome), Musa × paradisiaca L., Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn., Nymphaea nouchali Burm. f., Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus (L.) Domin (Raphanus sativus L.).

Keywords


Edible Underground Plant Parts, Nutritive Value, South Odisha, Tribal People.

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