This work was carried out to assess nutraceutical values of two prominent wild edible fruit, Hyphaene thebaica\n(L.) Mart. and Borassus aethiopum Mart. from family Arecaceae. Determination of phytochemical, proximate, minerals and\nantioxidant potentials were carried out. The proximate analysis of the moisture, ash content and crude fat reveals (6.74%,\n6.88%, 7.29%, 6.53% and 7.10%, 7.23%) for H. thebaica and B. aethiopum respectively. The B. aethiopum ranked highest in\ncrude fibre (32.15% ), while the highest carbohydrate content was determined in H. thebaica (65.90% ), the protein content of\nboth fruits were observed to be low (8.33�±1.4%) and (3.34% ) for H. thebaica and B. aethiopum, respectively. The mineral\nanalysis revealed that in both samples sodium (Na) was highest 14.06mg/g in B. aethiopum and 14.54mg/g, in H. thebaica,\nCalcium (Ca) 6.20mg/g in B. aethiopum and H. thebaica 5.00�±0.06, Potassium (K), 4.57mg/g in B. aethiopum and H. thebaica\n5.60mg/g, Magnesium (Mg) 2.03mg/g, in B. aethiopum and H. thebaica 1.53mg/g. The antioxidant activity of the aqueous\nextracts were determined and compared with the standard vitamin C, using stable 2, 2-diphenyl-1-picryl-hydrazyl (DPPH) and\nascertained by measuring reducing power, the extracts showed promising antioxidant activity at 0.5mg/ml, and the IC50 values\nwere calculated using linear regressions (0.86, 0.98, and 1) for vitamin C, B. aethiopum and H. thebaica, respectively. The\nresults indicated that B. aethiopum and H. thebaica fruits possessed nutraceuticals values very much comparable with the\ncommercial fruits reported earlier such as Magnifera indica, Anarcadium occidentalis, and Psidium guajava just to mention\nbut few.
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