Nutrients and carotenoids content of Green Leafy Vegetables (GLVs) of Bangladesh

Abstract

Green leafy vegetables (GLVs) have been analysed for their content of proximate nutrients
and carotenoids. Proximate nutrients were esdmated for twenty-seven and carotenoids for
fourteen varieties of vegetables. Moisture ranged between 75.31±5.08% for Dheki shak and
92.61±0.71% for Pui shak. Amongst vegetables studied Nune shak contained lowest
(1.08±0.30%), while Mula shak contained highest (6.31 ±4.09%) amount of protein. Fat
content ranged between 0.33±0.11% for Pui shak and 1.93±0.32% for Data shak. Carotenoid
content was found to be highest in Lai shak (9.38+0.60mg%) and lowest in Dheki shak
(3.30+0.80mg%). Most of the popularly consumed GLVs were found to be rich in
carotenoids.