The present study was designed to evaluate the amino acid profiles and anti-nutritional contents of six wild vegetables viz. Cardamine hirsuta, Melothria perpusilla, Cryptolepis sinensis, Persicaria chinensis, Lippia javanica and Polygonum perfoliatum from Assam, India. | Amino acid profiles and anti-nutritional contents of traditionally consumed six wild vegetables Current Chemistry Letters 8 2019 137 144 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Current Chemistry Letters homepage Amino acid profiles and anti-nutritional contents of traditionally consumed six wild vegetables Hwiyang Narzarya and Sanjay Basumataryb a Department of Biotechnology Bodoland University Kokrajhar-783370 Assam India b Department of Chemistry Bodoland University Kokrajhar-783370 Assam India CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history The present study was designed to evaluate the amino acid profiles and anti-nutritional contents Received March 2 2018 of six wild vegetables viz. Cardamine hirsuta Melothria perpusilla Cryptolepis sinensis Received in revised form Persicaria chinensis Lippia javanica and Polygonum perfoliatum from Assam India. The total March 12 2019 amino acid detected was found the highest in P. chinensis as mg g dry weight DW Accepted April 12 2019 followed by P. perfoliatum mg g DW and M. perpusilla mg g DW and the Available online lowest amino acid was observed in L. javanica mg g DW . However the highest non- April 12 2019 essential amino acids NEAA were detected in P. perfoliatum mg g DW . Among the Keywords NEAA aspartic acid and glutamic acid were detected in all the six plant species which ranged Wild vegetables Amino acid profile from to mg g DW and to mg g DW respectively. In this study the highest Essential amino acid concentration of essential amino acids EAA was detected in C. hirsuta mg g DW Anti-nutritional content followed by M. perpusilla mg g DW and P. chinensis mg g DW . Besides EAA and NEAA some other amino acids such as phosphoserine OH-proline amino adipic acid phosphoenolamine and taurine are the most common which were detected. In the study variable amounts of anti-nutritional contents were found and discussed herein. 2019 by the authors .
