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VOLUME 2 – AUGUST ISSUE 8
Seyoum Robo, Abera Haile, Birhanu Bekele
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this research was to physicochemical characterization of wild edible fruit Fruits that used by the indigenous community of Kaffa zone in southwest Ethiopia. The study identified six frequently used WEFPs and on which physicochemical properties were investigated. SPSS version 27 was used for statistical analysis. Tukey post hoc test for one way ANOVA comparission was used. Stock standard solutions containing 1000 mg/L of each metal (Mg, Mn, Ni, Pb, K, Ca, Fe, Zn, Cu, Co, Cr, Na, and Cd) in 2% HNO3 was used for preparation of calibration standards and in spiking experiments. The Correlation coefficient (R2) of calibration curve value indicates that mineral Mg shown relatively high value which was 0.9999. It was found that proximate compositions of each fruits were satisfying food requirement set by WHO and based on this K, Na, Ca, and Mg respectively are high concentration minerals among sampled fruits and Cadmium (Cd), Lead (Pd) and Cobalt (Co), which are below the technique detection limit. Statistically significant differences high concentration minerals were observed in calcium and potassium (P ≥ 0.05) at 95% confidence interval. The Multiple Comparisons for Tukey post hoc test revealed that the mean concentration of the four metallic minerals (Ca, Mg, Na and K) were statistically significantly. Accordingly among the given fruit types Peponium vogelii contains high moisture (30.75) and high crude protein (16.38), crude fiber found in Psigium guajava (57.3) and crude fat level was detected in Phsalis peruviana (12.38) based on proper physical and chemical procedure and it is found that they have high potential contribution for important food stuffs and required for daily intake nutritional quality was determined. On contrary to this it was found WEFPs are overlooked despite of their nutritional content. Finally increasing awareness of people to incorporate these Fruits in to daily food demands is necessary as far they hold good nutritional quality.
Keywords:
Nutritional qualities WEFPs Kafa zone south west Ethiopia.
