Journal of Global Resources
Volume 6 (01)August 2019-January 2020
Page 76-80
UGC–CARE Listed Journal in Group D
ISSN: 2395-3160 (Print), 2455-2445 (Online)
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NUTRITIVE VALUE OF DIFFERENT PARTS OF FIVE TYPES OF SOLENOSTEMONSCUTELLARIOIDES (L.) CODD. FROM LAMIACEAE FAMILY
J. Chetia and L.R. Saikia
Department of Life Sciences, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam, India
Email: junali.chetia@yahoo.com
Abstract: Solenostemon scutellarioides (L.) Codd. from Lamiaceae family are ornamental
plants having medicinal value. As some of the Lamiaceae members (Mentha spp, Ocimumspp.) are used as vegetable food, the nutritional status of these ornamental plant samples weredetermined to gets an idea about their food value using standard laboratory methods. All thesamples are found to have nutritional value above 300cal/kg. Young leaves of type 5 recorded
highest nutritive values (505.55cal/kg) than other tested types of S. scutellarioides. The ash,moisture, fat, protein and carbohydrate contents vary from type to type of S. scutellarioides.
Perhaps all the selected plants are not equally used as food in spite of their importance as
medicinal resource.
Key words: Solenostemon scutellarioides (L.) Codd., Lamiaceae members
Introduction
Lamiaceae has occupied an important position in the socio-cultural, spiritual, medicinal aspectsof rural and tribal peoples of India with their various medicinal properties (Sankar et al., 1994;
Singh and Majumdar, 1997; Umadevi and Ganasoundari, 1999; Prakash and Gupta, 2000;
Mediratta et al., 2002). The fat, ash, moisture, carbohydrate, protein content and nutritive valueof Lamiaceae members are also described by some workers (Edeoga et al., 2006; Kavitha etal., 2009; Idris et al., 2011; Khomdram et al., 2011; Koche et al., 2011; Mlitan et al., 2014;
Tomescu et al., 2015).
Solenostemon scutellariodes (L.) Codd. is an ornamental aromatic perennial plant(Garcia and O’Neil, 2000; Prajapati et al., 2013) with various colours (De Loureiro, 1970). Theplants are rich in phenolic compound and rosmarinic acid (Rasineni et al., 2008; Razzaque andEllis, 1977; De-Eknamkul and Ellis, 1987; Petersen, 1991; Petersen and Simmonds, 2003;
Bauer et al., 2004). It is a folkloric medicinal plant used to treat malarial fever, hepatopathy,
renal and vesicle calculi, cough, chronic asthma, hiccough, bronchitis, helminthiasis, colic,convulsions, diarrhoea, epilepsy, arthritic inflammations (Kirtikar and Basu, 1975; Warrier et al.,1995). Some of the plants of Lamiaceae are used as vegetables and therefore, proximate
analysis of the samples were done to have an idea about the nutritional status of these plants
used as human food in addition to their medicinal importance.
ANALYSIS
Materials and Methods
Samples were collected from Dibrugarh district of Assam at their full bloomed stage. Different
parts (young and mature leaves, inflorescence and stem) were separated and cleaned
properly. The materials were air dried at room temperature. The stems were sliced before
allowed to dry. After removal of surface water, the materials were wrapped with brown paper
and allow sundry for complete dryness (less than 1-2 percent moisture content). The materials
were grounded to fine powder using mortar and pestle and then in electric grinder. The fine
powder was kept in air tight bottles for further analysis.

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Photographs of the five types of Solenostemon scutellariodes (L.) Codd (a-e) (a-type 1;
b-type2, c-type 3, d-type 4 and e-type 5)

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)
(e)
Determination of Moisture Content
Moisture content was determined by the method described by AOAC, 1990. 3 gm of powderedsample was weighed in flat bottom disc and kept for 24 hrs in a hot air over at + 80°C andfinally weighed. The loss weight was regarded as a measure of moisture content.
Percent of Moisture =𝑊𝑒𝑡. 𝑤𝑡.−𝐷𝑟𝑦 𝑊𝑡.
× 100
𝑊𝑒𝑡 𝑊𝑡.

Determination of Ash Content
Ash content was determined by the method described by AOAC, 1990. 5 gm of powderedsample was weighed in oven dried silica crucible. The crucible was heated first over a low
flame till the material completely charred, followed by heating in a muffle furnace for 3 hours at
3000 C. It was cooled in desiccator and weighted. To ensure completion of ashing, it washeated again in the furnace for half an hour, cooled and weight. This was repeatedconsequently till the weight become constant wt.
𝑊𝑡.𝑜𝑓𝐴𝑠ℎPercent of Ash =𝑊𝑡. 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 × 100
Determination of Fat Content
Fat content was determined by the method described by AOAC, (1990). 5 gm of moisture freepowdered sample was extracted with petroleum ether in a soxhlet extractor, heating the flask
for about 6 hrs till a drop taken from dripping left no greasy stain on filter paper. After boilingwith petroleum ether, the residual petroleum ether was filtered using whatman no. 40 filter
paper and filtrate was evaporated in a pre-weighed beaker. Increase in weight of beaker gave
crude fat.
𝑊𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑜𝑓𝑡ℎ𝑒𝐹𝑎𝑡

Percent of fat = 𝑊𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑜𝑓𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑆𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 × 100
Determination of protein content
Protein content was determined by the Lowry method (Lowry et al., 1951)
Determination of carbohydrate content
Carbohydrate content was determined by using the formula as described by Indrayan et al.,(2005)
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Percent of carbohydrate = 100 – (% of ash + % of Moisture + % of fat + % of Protein)
Determination of nutritive value
The nutritive value of the plant parts were determined by the method described by Indrayan etal., (2005).
Nutritive value = 4x percentage of protein + 9x Percentage of fat + 4x Percentage ofcarbohydrate.
Nutritive value was expressed in Cal/ Kg of powder
Results
Ash content (percent) was recorded highest (5.70±0.50 percent) in mature leaves of type 1.
Moisture content (percent) was recorded highest (14.67±0.29 percent) in stem of type1. Fatcontent (percent) was recorded higher (34.00±0.04%) in young leaves of type 5. Protein
content of different parts of five types ranges from 0.010 percent to 0.080 percent. Youngleaves of type 1 recorded highest protein content as 0.080 percent. Highest carbohydratecontent was recorded by stem of type 4 (92.84 percent). Kavitha et al., (2009) recorded
protein content as 61.4 to 90.5mg/g in 37 genotype of S. scutellariodes. All the samples arefound to have nutritional value above 300cal/kg. Perhaps all the selected plants are not equallyused as food in spite of their importance as medicinal resource. The study of Khomdram et al.
(2011) provides information on nutritive value of some selected plants of Lamiaceae collectedfrom Manipur. Carbohydrate, soluble amino acid and protein were recorded in variable
quantities in their samples. Perhaps these plants may contain some anti-nutritional factor asreported by Vasconcelos and Oliveira (2004); Mattila et al., (2018). Gemede and Ratta, (2014)
explained that the presence of cyanogenic glycosides, protease inhibitors, lectins, tannins,alkaloids and sapiens in the plants in higher quantities may cause anti-nutritional effect.
Table 01: Nutritive value of different parts of Solenostemon scutellarioides (L.) Codd.
Type1Sample↓

Ash(%)

Moisture(%)

Fat(%)

Protein(%)

Carbohydrate
Nutritivevalue (cal/Kg)(%)

Young leaf

1.81±0.03

14.60±1.09

2.60±2.00

0.080±0.01

80.91

347.36

Mature leaf

5.70±0.50

10.10±0.03

2.35±0.09

0.012±0.03

81.83

348.52

Inflorescence

3.00±0.22

10.00±0.00

1.67±0.46

0.034±0.11

83.84

350.53Stem

1.09±0.04

14.67±0.29

0.87±0.01

0.012±0.90

83.35341.27

Table 02:Nutritive value of different parts of Solenostemon scutellarioides (L.) Codd.
Type 2Sample↓

Ash(%)

Moisture(%)

Young leaf

1.43±0.01

9.00±0.27

Mature leaf

2.33±1.11

6.83±0.09

Fat(%)

Carbohydrate(%)

Nutritivevalue(cal/Kg)

2.90±0.00 0.012±0.2286.65

372.773.30±0.01 0.018±1.00

87.52

379.85

Inflorescence

1.70±0.99 12.23±1.09 2.00±0.38 0.023±0.98

74.04

354.27Stem

0.98±0.01 12.78±1.12 0.89±0.02 0.013±0.2285.33349.41

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Protein(%)

Table 03: Nutritive value of different parts of Solenostemon scutellarioides (L.) Codd.
Type 3Sample↓

Ash(%)

Moisture(%)

Fat(%)

Protein(%)

Carbohydrate(%)

Nutritivevalue(cal/Kg)

Young leaf

2.84±0.00 6.60±0.02 4.60±0.02 0.013±0.02

85.95

385.23Mature leaf

1.96±0.07 7.20±0.33 5.81±1.00 0.014±0.1185.02392.42

Inflorescence

1.75±1.00 8.07±0.19 2.48±0.11 0.016±0.09

87.69

373.12Stem

0.40±0.01 8.72±0.23 1.00±0.00 0.010±0.09

89.87

368.52

Table 04: Nutritive value of different parts of Solenostemon scutellarioides (L.) Codd.
Type 4
SampleAshMoisture

Fat↓

(%)

(%)

(%)

Protein (%)(%)

Nutritivevalue(cal/Kg)

Carbohydrate

Young leaf

3.01±1.00 12.75±0.03 3.89±1.110.029±0.0380.32

356.42

Mature leaf2.00±0.44 14.10±1.00 4.00±0.03

0.030±0.32

79.87

355.60Inflorescence

1.89±0.00 10.01±0.03 2.01±0.99

0.031±0.09

86.05

362.44Stem

0.56±0.01

0.014±1.00

92.84

381.215.50±0.01

1.09±0.20

Table 05: Nutritive value of different parts of Solenostemon scutellarioides (L.) Codd.
Type 5Sample↓

Ash(%)

Moisture(%)

Fat(%)

Protein(%)

Carbohydrate(%)

Nutritivevalue(cal/Kg)

Young leaf

2.36±0.04 13.75±2.01 34.00±0.04 0.018±0.01

49.87

505.55Mature leaf

2.76±0.01 13.98±1.07 10.00±1.01 0.021±0.02

73.24

383.04

Inflorescence

2.09±1.11 10.40±0.22

8.57±0.99

0.035±0.77

78.91

392.89Stem

1.00±0.03

3.12±0.09

0.012±0.09

89.36

385.596.50±0.01

Conclusion
This kind of study provides information about the nutritional quality of these plants and some ofthem can be used as supplementary source of human food. The plants may have nutritional
value but they are still not considered as ‘functional food’ and are not well experimented.
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