Effects Of Drying Methods On Nutrient Contents Of Moringa Oleifera (Lam.) Leaves

Effects Of Drying Methods On Nutrient Contents Of Moringa Oleifera (Lam.) Leaves

Abstract

The study was carried out to determine the effect of drying styles on the nutrient contents of Moringa oleifera at the Agric. Chemical Laboratory( Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto) and The Energy Research Field of Sokoto Energy Center, Sokoto. Fresh leaves were collected and gutted also dried using different drying stylesviz. shade drying, solar drying, roaster drying and sun drying. The treatments were anatomized for proximate and mineral contents using standard styles. Statistical analysis indicates that humidity was smallest in solar drying(2.67). Shade drying produces the smallest lipid content(2.33). High protein content was recorded under shade drying(28.50). Overall, shade drying was noted to save the nutrient contents of Moringa oleifera better. In view of profitable significance of Moringa, there’s need to educate the original crowd on the stylish system of conserving this vegetable.

Chapter One

Preface

Moringa oliefera getaway. generally appertained to simply as “ Moringa ” belongs to the area Plantae, Order Brassicales, Family Moringacacae, Genus Moringa and Species Moringa oliefera.

Moringa oliefera is native to the Indian key and has come naturalized in the tropical and tropical areas of the world. It’s the most extensively cultivated species of the Genus Moringa, which is the only rubric in the Family Moringacacae. It’s an exceptionally nutritional vegetable tree with a variety of implicit uses. Moringa oliefera trees are well naturalized in the northern corridor of Nigeria where the leaves are popularly known as ‘ zogala ’ and extensively consumed by crowd( Pallavi and Dipika, 2010). The factory is described as a fast- growing factory and failure resistant crop variety. It can survive in lower rich soil( Fahey, 2005, Anwar etal., 2007). The tree itself is rather slender, with drooping.