National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Dietary antioxidants (total ascorbate, α-tocopherol and total carotenoids) and micronutrient (iron, calcium, zinc, copper and manganese) content of 25 fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.) genotypes were evaluated under the present investigation. Higher α-tocopherol and total carotenoid content i.e., 43.080±1.542 mg α-tocopherol/100 g dry wt. and 4.890±0.047 g carotenoids/100 g dry wt. was observed in RMt-305. The genotype RMt-143 showed highest iron, calcium and manganese content i.e., 184.11±1.639, 781.20±4.790 and 25.65±0.695 µg/g dry wt., respectively. Total ascorbate content within fenugreek genotypes under investigation showed a positive correlation with α-tocopherol and total carotenoid content (i.e., 0.114 and 0.061, respectively). It also showed a significant (p≤0.05) positive correlation with manganese (0.298) and iron content (0.062) among the genotypes. α-tocopherol content within fenugreek genotypes also showed a significant (p≤0.01) positive correlation (0.328) with total carotenoid content another important lipid-soluble antioxidant. The iron content within the fenugreek genotypes showed a significant (p≤0.01) positive correlation with other micronutrients viz., calcium, zinc and manganese (i.e., 0.408, 0.502 and 0.299, respectively). A positive correlation was also observed between iron and total ascorbate, α-tocopherol content (i.e., 0.062 and 0.213, respectively) within the genotypes. Similarly other mineral elements viz., calcium, zinc, copper and manganese, respectively also showed a positive correlation with each other in general. The findings of the present investigation clearly show significant variation in dietary antioxidants and micronutrients among the fenugreek genotypes under investigation. Thus the genotypes with higher dietary antioxidants and micronutrient content viz., RMt-305, Pant ragini, RMt-143, Pusa early bunching, IC-066843, GM-2 and HM-355 could be utilized as a valuable source of dietary micronutrients and may serve as potential functional food to combact micronutrient malnutrition along with other favourable health promoting affect.
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