WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Dr. Ekta Singh Chauhan, Shivani Srivastava*, Shivangi Yadav and Ritu Singh

ABSTRACT

India is known as “the home of spices.” Turmeric is a mild digestive, aromatic and a carminative. It is one of the most powerful heeler. The medicinal properties of turmeric have been slowly revealing themselves over the centuries. Huge known properties like anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic had revealed that turmeric is a natural wonder, beneficial in many health conditions from cancer to alhzimers disease. The purpose of present study is to evaluate the neutraceutical properties of fresh turmeric. Fresh turmeric was used for testing moisture, ash protein, fat, fiber, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron and riboflavin. Fresh turmeric aqueous extract was used in various assays such as alkaloids, glycosides, flavonoids, steroids, tannins, saponins and phenols. The entire phytochemical are present in fresh turmeric accept glycoside. The fresh turmeric prepared is nutritious, convenient and easy to store. Thus an attempt was made to prepare the fresh turmeric chutney. The chemical analysis of turmeric shows the high presence of the protein, fat, and fiber. Fresh turmeric was incorporated at 5%, 10% and 15% in the chutney. The results of overall acceptability show that the variant A 5% fresh turmeric chutney was most acceptable as compared to other variants. In the comparison of chemical analysis of standard chutney and variant A (5% fresh turmeric powder) moisture, ash, protein, fat, iron and vitamin C increased respectively. Thus, the study concluded that fresh turmeric is beneficial in all aspects.

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