mauritiana can find potential applications in food and pharmaceutical product as nutraceutical ingredients. This study suggested that leaves, fruit and seed of Z. mauritiana plant can be an excellent source of carbohydrate, protein and its fiber. While the pH of the leaves and fruit are 5.47 and 4.77 respectively. mauritiana has shown that the fruit possess the higher value of 11.70☋rix TSS and 0.32% TA than the leaves with 0.97☋rix TSS and 0.09% TA. Moisture content (88.32%) was the highest in fruit, while the crude fiber (48.12%), fat (1.89%), carbohydrate (63.24%) and calorific value (411.61 kJ) were the highest in the seed. Based on the proximate analysis, the highest percentage of ash (9.06%) and crude protein (14.59%) were found in the leaves. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to analyse the proximate composition and to read characteristic like pH, titratable acid (TA) and total soluble solids (TSS) of Z. However, the nutraceutical potential of this plant remains unrevealed scientifically. Ziziphus mauritiana plant also known as Bidara in Malaysia is well-known since ancient for their usage especially in Islamic traditional medicine due to health beneficial effect.
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