Journal of Tropical Life Science : International Journal of Theoretical, Experimental, and Applied Life Sciences
Vol 10, No 1 (2020)

Nutritional Value of Selected Edible Ficus Fruit in Kuantan

Nazua, Nadira (Unknown)
Shahari, Rozilawati (Unknown)
Amri, Che Nurul Aini Che (Unknown)
Tajudin, Nur Shuhada (Unknown)
Mispan, Mohd. Radzali (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Jan 2020

Abstract

Interest in the nutritional value content in food had been increasing as one of the ways to reduce the disease among the human being. Ficus is one of the fruit that contained high in major source of nutrients. Considering the important towards the mankind, this study was conducted to evaluate the nutritional content of Ficus fruit. There were six species and varieties of Ficus used in this study. The fresh sample was collected from selected area in Kuantan, Pahang. The major proximal components such as moisture content, crude fibre, crude lipid, total ash, crude protein, carbohydrate and energy was analysed using AOAC method. Based on this study, the moisture content ranges from 36. 33 % - 49.67 % in F. carica cv. BTM6; crude protein 2.3 % - 4.58 % in F. carica cv. TGF; crude lipid 0.01 % - 0.11 % in F. carica cv. BTM6; total ash 14.94 % - 21.22 % in F. carica cv. Alma and crude fiber 0.88 % - 3.36 % in F. carica cv. BTM6. The highest value of carbohydrate and energy content was found in F. hispida with 43.86 % and 175.44 kJ, respectively. According to our findings, consumption of Ficus fruit is recommended for commercialized in green industry based on its nutritional content that was crucial for human health.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jtrolis

Publisher

Subject

Agriculture, Biological Sciences & Forestry Environmental Science

Description

The Journal of Tropical Life Science (JTLS) provides publication of full-length papers, short communication and review articles describing of new finding or theory in living system, cells and molecular level in tropical life science and related areas. The journal publishes articles that report novel ...