Nutritional studies of wild vigna species from North Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India Patil Mayur, Jadhav Rashmi, Auti Sanjay* KKHA Arts SMGL Commerce and SPHJ Science College, Chandwad, Dist-Nashik423101M.S., India *HPT Arts and RYK Science College, Nashik422005. M.S., India Online published on 17 October, 2020. Abstract Six wild species of Vigna collected from North-Western Ghats of Maharashtra were analyzed for nutrient contents. On an average protein, reducing sugar, free amino acids ranged from 92±0.70 to 192.07±0.60,159.76 ±068 to 234.76 ±0.68 and 15.53 ±1.10 to 77.55 ±0.17 mg/g dry weights respectively. The anti-nutritional components such as Phenols and tannins were within the range of 0.223 ±0.43 to 0.388 ±0.36 % and 0.218 ±0.76 to 1.152 ±0.64 % respectively. The results indicated that the wild species of Vigna are promising sources of nutrients, which needs further studies for their exploitation as a source of food, feed or fodder. Top Keywords Wild Vigna species, Nutritional analysis, Protein, Phenol, Tannin. Top |