Quality Assessment of Five Different Brands of Chyawanprash Marketed in Nepal

Table 2

Physicochemical evaluation of Chyawanprash (average ± standard deviation).

Components	Brand A	Brand B	Brand C	Brand D	Brand E
pH	5.15	5.12	5.29	5.19	5.34
Acid-insoluble ash	0.15 ± 0.02	0.260 ± 0.08	0.23 ± 0.02	0.12 ± 0.05	1.47 ± 0.26
Alcohol-soluble extractive	17.91 ± 0.96	15.51 ± 2.19	17.15 ± 1.21	18.99 ± 1.02	16.89 ± 1.72
Water-soluble extractive	19 ± 0.76	21.33 ± 0.99	18.11 ± 0.59	20.24 ± 1.61	20.03 ± 1.09

Note. Only insignificant relationship exists between different components ( > 0.05).