Nutritional Quality of Vegetables From Malaysian Urban Community Farming
Malaysian Urban Community Farming
Keywords:
Urban community farming, Nutritional, Sugar, Gross energy, Vitamin, MineralAbstract
Urban community farming has gained interest in Malaysia due to the increase of daily expenditure among household and support by government under several policy and initiative. Hence in this study, the nutritional quality of various vegetables from established Malaysian urban community farming has been evaluated in order to vitalized the activity among community. The nutritional quality evaluation focus on sugar content, gross energy, vitamin A, vitamin C and twelve types of minerals which include aluminum (Al), boron (B), calcium (Ca), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), potassium (K), magnesium (Mg), manganese (Mn), sodium (Na), phosphorus (P), sulfur (S) and zinc (Zn). The analysis was carried-out using via dedicated instruments such as High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), calorimeter bomb analyzer and Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES). The results obtained exhibited all the planted vegetables possess at least two types of common sugars with five of it possess all the targeted sugars. The gross energy of the planted vegetables which usually related to sugars ranging from 2900 to 3800 joule/g that support it as essential source for energy for living. Some of the vegetables also possess vitamins with pak choy and sawi exhibited the highest content vitamin A and C, respectively. As for the mineral content, all the vegetables possess twelve minerals with spinach exhibited the largest number of highest mineral types which include boron (B), potassium (K), magnesium (Mg) and phosphorus (P). These findings exhibited that the urban farming community could also produce a nutritional vegetable for fulfilment of daily consumption and furthermore reduces community expenses.
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Copyright (c) 2024 Mohd Nazrul Hisham Daud, Mohd Lip Jabit, Norhasni Ramli, Nur Syafini Ghazali, Joanna Cho Lee Ying, Azirah Omar
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