Effects of Seed Priming with Zinc Sulfate on Nutritional Enrichment and Biochemical Fingerprints of Momordica charantia

Table 2

Biochemical attributes of zinc sulfate treatment on seed priming of M. charantia for nutritive analysis in fruit and peel.

	Fruit		Peel
Proximate analysis	Control	Treated	Control	Treated
Free amino acid (mg/g)	10.44 ± 0.05^a	8.43 ± 0.02^a	0.5 ± 1.05^b	1.96 ± 0.31^a
Crude fiber (%)	3.08 ± 0.04^a	2.81 ± 0.02^a	3.4 ± 0.44^a	3.62 ± 0.10^a
Protein (mg/g)	26.62 ± 1.57^b	76.20 ± 3.56^a	26.78 ± 0.68^a	28.63 ± 0.15^a
Total soluble sugar (%)	39 ± 3.46^a	40.53 ± 1.65^a	31.6 ± 0.07^a	30.05 ± 0.2^b
Ash (%)	14.93 ± 0.46^a	20.53 ± 2.57^b	15.82 ± 0.75^a	15.38 ± 0.75^a
Peroxidase (U/g)	2.24 ± 0.41^a	3.04 ± 0.56^a	2.43 ± 0.57^b	5.64 ± 0.25^a
Catalase (U/g)	322.9 ± 48.52^a	347.47 ± 34.76^a	374.3 ± 17.31^a	290.13 ± 4.69^a
Oil (%)	0.96 ± 0.01^a	0.96 ± 0.01^a	0.97 ± 0.01^a	0.96 ± 0.01^a
Metabolize energy (kcal/100 g)	17.05 ± 0.77^b	30.94 ± 0.86^a	17.05 ± 0.77^b	28.94 ± 0.86^a