B. L. Soni ¹, D. C. Sharma ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Biochemistry, Rabindranath Tagore Medical College, Udaipur, IN

Abstract

Anemia is the second most common affliction in the world and nutritional iron deficiency is the most common cause of it. On the other hand, pellagra is the nutritional disease associated with niacin deficiency excessive consumption of maize as the staple diet'. The incidence of both these conditions is high in the Udaipur region of India.

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P. P. Singh ¹, D. C. Sharma ², S. N. Saxena ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, R.N.T. Medical College, Udaipur, IN
2 R.N.T. Medical College, Udaipur, IN
3 Agricultural Chemistry, University of Udaipur, IN

Abstract

An observation that the total oxalate and its soluble and insoluble oxalate fractions of the leaves of the same bathua species of almost same maturity from two differenit places differed substantially, evoked interest in this problem. The work here records for the first time the oxalate and cation content of the different parts of two bathua vegetables viz. bathua (Chenopodium album L.) and Kharbathua or bhabhra (Chenopodium murale L.) collected from ten sites.

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