Comparative analysis of primary metabolites of three medicinal plants

Abstract

The plants have long served as a major source of medicinal compounds. Medicinal\rplants are value added for the contents and the chemical composition of their active components.\rTherefore, the demand of plant based therapeutics has increased many folds because they are natural\rproducts, being non-narcotics, having no side effects and easily available at affordable prices. The\rgoal of the present investigation was to estimate soluble sugar, chlorophyll, protein, lipids, phenols\rand starch from different plants. The highest amount of protein (46.87%), chlorophyll (1.63%) and\rstarch (57.23%) was found in Mangifera indica, suluble sugar (68.75) and lipid (0.03%) was found\rhighest in Moringa oleifera and the highest phenol (0.013%) was obtained from Psidium guajava.