• Varun Tyagi
• Neelam Chaturvedi

Abstract: Today, it has been a big challenge to provide safe, healthy and nutritious source of food for poor income group and undernourished population of the developing world. Due to scarcity, high cost and unreliable supply of healthy food in the developing and underdeveloped countries have resulted in the find out the cheap and alternative source of healthy and nutritious food. Some of the underutilized edible green leafy vegetables have been analyzed and found to possess high nutritional and therapeutic value. Thus, the present study examined the comparison on proximate and mineral composition of Trigonella corniculeta (kasuri methi) with Trigonella foenum-graecum (common methi) leaves. The proximate parameters moisture, ash, protein, fat, fiber content, and carbohydrate was calculated with difference method (100-moisture+ash+ fat +protein +fiber content) were performed by Association of official Analytical chemists standard methods whereas minerals content were carried out using an inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES) method. The present result showed that protein and fiber content of T. corniculeta were significantly increased (p<0.05) by 23.61% and 12.73% respectively when compared to T. foenum-graecum. The mineral analysis also revealed that T. corniculeta had significantly increased calcium and iron content ;1196.97±1.02 and 40.83 ±0.16 mg/100g respectively. The present study revealed that, the leaves of T. corniculeta contain appreciable amount of protein, fiber, iron and calcium content. Despite the fact that it is a lesser known leafy vegetable, has massive nutritional potentials as common methi and could be favourably used as a substitute for most of the commonly used vegetables.

Green leafy vegetables, Trigonella corniculeta, Trigonella foenum-graecum, proximate and mineral composition

"A Comparative Study on Proximate and Mineral Composition of Trigonella corniculata and Trigonella foenum-graecum leaves", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.214-219, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907G75.pdf

"A Comparative Study on Proximate and Mineral Composition of Trigonella corniculata and Trigonella foenum-graecum leaves", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp214-219, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907G75.pdf