Physicochemical Properties of Water Chestnut

Hajra Mir Alam; Rubab Naeem; Ghulam Rubab; Hania Bilal; Huria Arooj; Iqra Ashraf; Mashal Hassan; Laiba Nasir; Bisma Rizwan; Shehreen  Shehzad; Rameesha  Tariq

doi:10.54393/pjhs.v2i01.36

Authors

Hajra Mir Alam University Institute of Dietetics and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
Rubab Naeem University Institute of Dietetics and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
Ghulam Rubab University Institute of Dietetics and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
Hania Bilal University Institute of Dietetics and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
Huria Arooj University Institute of Dietetics and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
Iqra Ashraf University Institute of Dietetics and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
Mashal Hassan University Institute of Dietetics and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
Laiba Nasir University Institute of Dietetics and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
Bisma Rizwan University Institute of Dietetics and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
Shehreen Shehzad University Institute of Dietetics and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
Rameesha Tariq University Institute of Dietetics and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54393/pjhs.v2i01.36

Abstract

Trapa natans, sometimes known as water chestnut, is a small herb that belongs to the Trapaceae family and is widely used across the world due to its nutraceutical characteristics. Gongorrhea, menorrhagia, and other genital infections are all treated using the whole plant. It is most commonly used to treat diarrhoea, constipation, ophthalmopathy, ulcers, and wounds. These are also used to treat serious conditions in pitta, such as consuming sensations, dipsia, dyspepsia, discharge, hemoptysis, looseness of the bowels, diarrhoea, and, strangely, irregular fever, disease, weakness, aggravation, urethrorrhea, breaks, erysipelas, lumbago, pharyngitis, bronchitis, and general debility Trapa natans has a great quantity of minerals, particles, to be particular, Ca, K, Na, Zn, and nutrients; saponins, phenols, alkaloids, H-gift, and flavonoids are accounted to be in the plants, maybe because to their photochemical characteristic. Dietary and biochemical studies of Trapa natans derivatives in 100 g revealed. Carbohydrate content was 22.30 and 71.55 percent, protein content was 4.40 percent and 10.80 percent, moisture content, fiber content, and fat content were 70.35 and 7.30, 2.05 and 6.35, 2.30 and 8.50, and 0.65 and 1.85, respectively, the mineral content of the seeds was 32 mg and 102.85 mg calcium, 1.4 and 3.8 mg iron, and 121 and 325 mg phosphorus in 100 g, and seeds of Trapa natans.

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