TITLE OF THE PAPER – PRELIMINARY PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT SOLVENT EXTRACTS OF LAGENARIA SICERARIA (MOLINA) STANDL. AND LUFFA CYLINDRICA (L.) M.ROEM VEGETABLE PEEL WASTE.

Abstract

Phytochemical, Lagenaria siceraria(Molina) standl., Luffa cylindrica (L.) M.Roem.peels. Indiais the second major producer of fruits and vegetables in the world. According to India Agricultural Research Data Book 2004, the total waste generated from fruits and vegetables comes to 50 million tons per annum. Peel waste is a serious problem to the processing industries and pollution monitoring agencies. Waste utilization in fruits and vegetable processing industries is the one of the important and challengeable job around the world. The effect of resources depletion and environmental concerns have triggered new regulations and growing awareness throughout the world, thus promoting the use of more and more fruit and vegetable waste to obtain by-products with health benefits. Thus, in the present study an attempt was made to bring the utilization of two vegetable peel waste by investigating the presence of various phytochemicals in the different extracts of Lagenaria siceraria(Molina) standl. and Luffa cylindrica (L.) M.Roem.peels.Ten different extracts of the selected vegetable peels were made using water and organic solvents. Various phytoconstituents were found to be present in different extracts of Lagenaria siceraria(Molina) standl. and Luffa cylindrica (L.)M.Roem.peels. Copy Right, IJAR, 2016,. All rights reserved.