Vol. 7, Special Issue 6 (2019)
Study on the role of microgreens in human life
Author(s): Dr. Satya Prakash
Abstract: In development countries like India 13.5% people are chronically undernourished with Western-Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the most severely affected regions.(Anonymous, 2015). Microgreens meaning referred as new emerging food products, which are young seedlings of vegetables and herbs, having two fully developed cotyledons with the first pair of true leaves emerging or partially expanded. Microgreens are a new class of small, fresh, edible vegetables considered as a good nutritional source because of their high mineral and bioactive compound content of minerals and antioxidant bioactive compounds (Fuente et al. 2019). Microgreens meaning referred as new emerging food products, which are young seedlings of vegetables and herbs, having two fully developed cotyledons with the first pair of true leaves emerging or partially expanded. Microgreens can be produced from many vegetables, herbaceous plants, aromatic herbs, grains and wild species and possess distinctive organoleptic properties, such as colour, shape, texture and taste. An experiment was conducted to determine the concentrations of ascorbic acid, carotenoids, phylloquinone and tocopherols in 25 commercially available microgreens. Results showed that different microgreens provided extremely varying amounts of vitamins and carotenoids. Total ascorbic acid contents ranged from 20.4 to 147.0 mg per 100 g fresh weight (FW), whileβ-carotene, lutein/zeaxanthin and violaxanthin concentrations ranged from 0.6 to 12.1, 1.3 to 10.1 and 0.9 to 7.7 mg/100g FW, respectively. Among the 25 microgreens assayed, red cabbage, carotenoids, phylloquinone and tocopherols, respectively. In comparison with nutritional concentrations in mature leaves (USDA National Nutrients Database), the microgreen cotyledon leaves possessed higher nutritional densities. (Xiao et al. 2012).
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Dr. Satya Prakash. Study on the role of microgreens in human life. International Journal of Chemical Studies. 2019; 7(6): 419-421.
