Abstract

COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF PHYTOCHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF RIND, PULP, AND SEED OF HODGSONIA HETEROCLITA FRUIT ENCOUNTERED IN KOKRAJHAR DISTRICT, BTAD, ASSAM, INDIA

Derhasat Narzary, Sushil Kumar Middha, Talambedu Usha, Birendra Kumar Brahma and Dr. Arvind Kumar Goyal*

Abstract

Hodgsonia heteroclita is an important medicinal plant that has been associated with the life of different tribes of North east India over years. In view of its varied traditional use of medicine, it has been the subjected to scientific validation. The present study was aimed to evaluate the presence of various phytochemicals and estimate the total phenol, flavonoid and flavonol of the 70% methanolic extract of pulp, peel and rind of H. heteroclita fruit. The results revealed the presence of various phytochemicals like carbohydrates, reducing sugars, tannins, saponnins, flavonoids, steroids, alkaloids, anthraquinones, glycosides. The total phenol and flavonol content was found to be highest in rind while the pulp had the highest flavonoid. Thus it can be ascertain that H. heteroclita fruit can be used potentially as a readily available source of natural antioxidants and as a possible pharmaceutical supplement.

Keywords: Hodgsonia heteroclita, phytochemicals, phenol, flavonoid.