Nutraceutical Assessment and Amino Acids Profile of Leaves of Medicinal Plant: Uvaria chamae (Bush Banana)

Abstract

The availability of good and quality nutrition from plant source still remain one of the key assets in mitigating the global challenge of food insecurity. The readily abundance plants nutrient enable the adequate and sufficient supply of the nutritional needs for human growth and development. This study aimed at exploring essential nutritional composition of Uvaria chamae leaves. Evaluation of the proximate composition that depicts the fibre composition was highest, while the least was ash. Micro-nutrients (selenium, iron, manganese and copper) and micro nutrient (calcium potassium, sodium and magnesium) were detected in appreciable concentration. The determination Antioxidant vitamins of A, C and E depicted that vitamin C had the highest concentration. High liquid performance chromatograph Amino acid profiling of the leaves showed the detection of thirteen amino acids with aspartic acid obtaining the highest concentration while the least is histidine. Findings from this study portray the nutraceutical potentials of the leaves of U. chamae in providing supplementary nutritional needs for animal and human needs.