Nutritional & Anti-Nutritional and Anti-Oxidative Profiling of Globally Utilized Diverse Seed Coat Color Mustards

Author: Garg, S., Pant, U., Nain, P. and Punetha H.

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Abstract

Mustard is widely utilized in diet by people all over the world for its taste and spice based use. However, certain anti-nutritional factors are evidently present in it which limits its use and consumption in both human and animal based diet. Sinapis alba (White seeds), Brassica nigra (Black seeds) and Brassica juncea (Brown seeds) are three genotypes being considered herein for research analysis in their seeds, aimed at screening of anti-nutritional factors like sinapine content, total glucosinolates, phytic acid along with potent anti-oxidative properties like total antioxidant content, ferrous ion chelating activity, reducing activity and DPPH scavenging activity. So the beneficial and non-beneficial aspects of three globally used mustard genotypes are presented hereby which elucidate presence of important fundamental phyto-chemicals and their distribution in different coat color mustard genotypes. The results obtained have deciphered that Brassica juncea is having highest amount of total glucosinolates, methionine and total antioxidative capacity which verifies the fact that methionine is metabolic precursor of glucosinolates and due to which total anti-oxidative capacity is highest in it among three genotypes. The S. alba widely used in European region interestingly carries intermediate values of phytochemicals determined here among black and brown seed mustard genotypes. While, Beta- carotene possesses anti-oxidative properties, its content is found highest in Brassica nigra suggesting its role in scavenging free radicals at higher rates. Meanwhile, the compounds like phytic acid and sinapine esters which are known for generation of free radicals are present contrastingly in highest amounts in the B. nigra. Phytic acid and Sinapine esters also hinders the bioavailability of important nutrients and proteins, while being present overall in varying concentrations in all mustard genotypes limiting their large scale use in fish feed, poultry feed, cattle feed and human based diet. To enhance contribution of mustard in fish feed and poultry feed from 10% and 30% to 70 % and 60%, respectively is the major future challenges need to be addressed and for which primary step is evaluation of key biochemicals. Moreover, the consumption of mustard is also done by humans for which, an evaluation of nutritional and anti-nutritional factors becomes essential.

Keywords

Anti-nutrients, Brassicaceae, Indian mustard, Phytate, Biochemicals

Conclusion

The white mustard, S. alba holds intermediate values for glucosinolate and sinapine content among the three globally utilized mustard genotypes, analyzed in here for research. The phytic acid content was slightly lower in S. alba in respect to that of B. juncea, while B. nigra was found out to be with least phytic acid content.

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How to cite this article

Garg, S., Pant, U., Nain, P. and Punetha. H. (2023). Nutritional & Anti-Nutritional and Anti-Oxidative Profiling of Globally Utilized Diverse Seed Coat Color Mustards. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 15(5): 1268-1273.