TLC and Nutritional Composition Analysis of Allium wallichii Kunth (Himalayan Onion)

Abstract

Allium wallichii (A. wallichii) Kunth, is an underutilized rare medicinal plant species with several beneficial ethnomedicinal health promotion activity Moreover, being so popular in both ethanobotanicals and traditional herbal system, still the plant is very less studied for phytochemical and nutritional composition analysis. Therefore, phytochemical and nutritional composition analysis of A. wallichii leaves are set as the main objective of the current work. In this context powder of A. wallichii leaves was subjected for the nutritional analysis and the extract was subjected to thin layer chromatography analysis for fingerprinting of various compounds. In this context, we have found presence of several health promoting nutraceutical bioactives and phytochemicals compounds. In conclusion the traditional utilization of plant in ethnomedicine for nutraceutical and medicinal purpose was attributed due to presence of nutraceutical bioactives and phytochemicals compounds.