Green Leafy Vegetables of Chhattisgarh Containing Vitamins and Minerals

Sonia Singh Thakur; Manmohan Singh Jangdey; Khomendra Kumar Sarwa

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The present studies of Chhattisgarh Plants have been utilized as a natural source of medicinal compounds in recent years. Chhattisgarh region plants and plant-derived products is commonly used to cures and relief various physical and mental illnesses.. In Chhattisgarh state, various populations of tribal rural and local populations used various types of leafy vegetables. These tribal and local populations of Chhattisgarh particularly people around the forest area depend on leafy vegetables as a source of food diet because they connect the natural vegetation of Chhattisgarh leafy vegetable plant has high nutrition source. Leafy vegetables are rich in nutritional value, high protein per calorie, dietary fiber, vitamin C, pro-vitamin A, carotenoids, folate, manganese, and vitamin K. In Leafy vegetable plant cells, they also present secondary metabolites. These metabolites are highly present in the leaf part and it is also beneficial to treat diseases of humans also. The secondary metabolites which are present in the green leaves are (steroids, flavonoids, tannins, alkaloids, and saponins. This was the mini-review paper introducing the many green leafy vegetables used in Chhattisgarh for treating wound healing activity.

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