Sanjeet Kumar
sanjeet.biotech@gmail.com
Nutrition
is the science of food. The nutrient and other substances there in, their
action, interaction and balance is related to health and diseases. Nutrient are
grouped into six classes namely carbohydrate, fats, proteins, vitamins, mineral
and water. These all are essential things which are found in plant and animal
sources. Plants are the principal source for getting such important components.
Human beings have been obtaining these food components of plant and animal
sources from early civilization, and also learned the process of consuming them
called “Traditional food systems”. Some edible plant parts are very palatable
but some are toxic, tannic or bitter. In this context they developed natural
detoxification process to make them edible. Among the edible plant species,
wild cucurbits are important and common in remote areas. In Odisha, there are
numbers of wild cucurbits are available which are used as food by rural and
tribal communities. The most common edible wild cucurbits are C. grandis, T. cucumerina, L. acutungala, L.
cylendricca, C. melo, S. amplexculis etc. All the edible parts of plant
contain rich nutritional values. Misra
and Misra (2014) reported the edible root of S. amplexicaulis used in Odisha whereas Prusti and Behera (2007)
documented the traditional food values of Cucumis
species of Sundargarh district of Odisha. Pani et
al. (2010) documented that cucurbits of Odisha is used specially L. actungula, T. diocea, M. charchantia,
M. diocea are used as food in
different parts of Odisha.
 |
| Mahakaal |
No comments:
Post a Comment