Abstracto

Proximate and Mineral Composition of Wild Corchorous olitorius Seed Flour

Oloye DA, Odeja OT, Faboya ET, and Ibrahim TA

Raw seed flour of wild Corchorous olitorius was evaluated for its proximate composition and mineral content using standard procedures.The mean values of parameters fro proximate composition (%) were: moisture, (5.32±0.3), crude fibre (6.60±0.1), carbohydrate (by difference) (21.99±0.1) and the calculated energy (kg/100g) (1892.3). Minerals (mg/100g) included ;Na (25.8±0.4),K (37.2±0.1), Ca (28.9±0.5), Fe (0.9±0.1), P (19.5±0.2) and Mn (1.4±0.2).The results from this study show that the seed flour of wild Corchorous olitorious is a good source of energy, protein and minerals which proved the flour to be used as food fortifier.