چکیده (انگلیسی):

Determination of nutritive value of Xylopiaparviflora seed was carried out using standard analytical methods. The proximate parameters determined were moisture content (8.95 ± 1.93)%, ash content (6.25 ± 0.35)%, crude fibre (8.25 ± 0.57)%, crude protein (8.28 ± 0.19) %, fat (6.08 ± 0.46) % and carbohydrate (62.45 ± 0.76) % as well as calorific value (337.60 ± 0.32KJ/100g) respectively. The result of this sample revealed that the seed of Xylopiaparviflora contains reasonable amount of mineral contents needed in diet with potassium concentration of (53.21±0.31 mg/100g), phosphorus (50.22±0.43 mg/100g), sodium (49.50±0.42 mg/100g), magnesium (22.58±0.62 mg/100g) and iron content (26.41±0.28 mg/100g) as well as copper concentration 12.42±0.14 mg/100g. The highest and lowest essential and non-essential amino acid composition of this seed were glutamic acid (13.18 g/100g) and tryptophan (0.65 g/100g) and leucine (5.79 g/100g) and cystine (0.66g/100g) respectively. The anti-nutritional factors were also determined which revealed that the result were all below toxic level and therefore may not cause any effect on man and his animal when taken.