Nutritional Composition and Phytochemical Evaluation of Some Selected Wild Edible Plants in Tach Gaint District, Northwestern Ethiopia

Table 1

Proximate composition of five edible wild plants in the study area.

Plant species	Proximate analysis (mg/100 g dry weight)
	Amaranthus graecizans (leaves)	Erucastrum abyssinicum (leaves)	Opuntia ficus-indica (fruits)	Rumex abyssinicus (young shoots)	Urtica simensis (leaves)
Moisture	40.8 ± 0.00^de	29.90 ± 0.00^c	12.4 ± 0.00^a	39.53 ± 0.63^de	25 ± 0.00^b
Ash	24.7 ± 0.15^e	4.97 ± 0.17^c	1.7 ± 0.00^b	0.9 ± 0.00^a	21.30 ± 0.00^d
Fat	8.40 ± 0.00^c	6.87 ± 0.03^b	11 ± 0.00^d	14.07 ± 0.03^e	4.40 ± 0.6^a
Fiber	9.70 ± 0.00^b	7.80 ± 0.2^a	18.80 ± 0.00^d	34.70 ± 0.25^e	10.47 ± 0.07^c
Protein	14.97 ± 0.03^d	17.47 ± 0.03^e	11.70 ± 0.00^b	9.53 ± 0.03^a	12.30 ± 0.00^c
Carbohydrate	1.43 ± 0.14^ab	32.99 ± 0.00^d	44.4 ± 0.00^e	1.27 ± 0.58^ab	26.53 ± 0.12^c
Energy (Kcal/100 g)	141.2 ± 0.23^b	263.46 ± 0.30^c	326.4 ± 0.00^e	169.8 ± 0.38^ab	194.9 ± 0.12^d

NB: the values are the means of three independent composite sample analyses (on a DW basis) SD. At  < 0.05, different superscripts down the column are significantly different.