and are Sri Lankan endemic plants with significant therapeutic potential and numerous health-care applications. Despite this, there are no adequate literatures reported on the chemical compositions (CCs) and antioxidative potential (AP) of leaves' essential oils (EOs). The purpose of this study was to extract EOs from the leaves and investigate the CCs and AP of the extracted EOs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDespite that Sri Lanka is a biodiversity hotspot with numerous guava varieties ( L.), no adequate scientific research has been reported on leaf essential oil (EO) composition based on varieties and its pharmacological properties, namely antioxidant properties. Therefore, this study focused to evaluate the chemical compositions and antioxidative capacity of EOs isolated from leaves of seven guava varieties grown in Sri Lanka, including apple-guava ( PGA), common-guava ( PGCG), two wild-guava; cultivar of (PGG) and a cultivar of (PGE), two introduced varieties of (PGK and PGP), and one introduced variety of (PGC).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSri Lanka is rich in a wide diversity of fruits, but many are underutilized by the people in Sri Lanka despite their nutritional value. This is mainly due to little awareness of the palatability of many fruits and hence low popularity in the market. The present study aimed at providing comparative data on the main biochemical and nutritional parameters of thirty-seven (37) species of fruits grown in Sri Lanka, including 22 underutilized fruits and 15 commonly consumed fruits.
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