The Journal of Phytopharmacology, 2022;11(6):403-406 DOI:10.31254/phyto.2022.11605
TLC and Nutritional Composition Analysis of Allium wallichii Kunth (Himalayan Onion)
Vijay Singh Rana1 , Neeraj Kumar Sethiya1 , Sushil Kumar Chaudhary1 , Manmohan Singhal1 , Bhavna Kumar1 , Samir Bhargava1 , Tejaus Mallikarjun Kolhar1
1. Faculty of Pharmacy, DIT University, Mussoorie Diversion Road, Dehradun, Uttarakhand- 248009, India
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Received: 5th November, 2022 / Accepted: 26th November, 2022 / Published : 20th December, 2022
Allium wallichii (A. wallichii) Kunth, is an underutilized rare medicinal plant species with severalbeneficial ethnomedicinal health promotion activity Moreover, being so popular in both ethanobotanicalsand traditional herbal system, still the plant is very less studied for phytochemical and nutritional composition analysis. Therefore, phytochemical and nutritional composition analysis of A. wallichii leaves are set as the main objective of the current work. In this context powder of A. wallichii leaves wassubjected for the nutritional analysis and the extract was subjected to thin layer chromatography analysisfor fingerprinting of various compounds. In this context, we have found presence of several healthpromoting nutraceutical bioactives and phytochemicals compounds. In conclusion the traditionalutilization of plant in ethnomedicine for nutraceutical and medicinal purpose was attributed due topresence of nutraceutical bioactives and phytochemicals compounds.
Nutraceutical composition, TLC, Phytochemical, Allium wallichii
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Rana VS, Sethiya NK, Chaudhary SK, Singhal M, Kumar B, Bhargava S, KolharTM. TLC and Nutritional Composition Analysis of Allium wallichii Kunth(Himalayan Onion). J Phytopharmacol 2022; 11(6):403-406. doi:10.31254/phyto.2022.11605
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