Abstract
Edible plants are used as valuable sources of food and medicine to prevent nutritional imbalance, illness, and maintenance of human health. This review covers botanical descriptions, phytochemicals studies, traditional comprehensions, dietary values, and biological activities of ten vegetable plants and eight fruit plants of Tripura, India. The book “The Flora of Tripura State” helps to choose the plant species of Tripura, India and PubMed, NCBI, Google scholar databases have been used to describe the plant species briefly. Literature reveals that all the selected edible plants contain bio-active constituents (alkaloids, phenols, flavonoids, tannins, terpenoids, glycosides, etc.) and give dynamic biological activities. All the plants have a high nutritional value. This review believes it will provide significant advances in the prevention of malnutrition and chronic diseases.
Highlights
Edible plants are essential in our diet and have ethnomedicinal values without any toxicity
The traditional medicinal knowledge and biological activity of the plant species depended on the presence of different phytochemicals[80,81]
The literature revealed that eighteen edible medicinal plants have contained common phytochemicals like alkaloids, phenolic, flavonoids, terpenoids, tannin, glycosides and gave various traditional medicinal values and biological activities represented in the Tables 19 and 20
Summary
Edible plants are essential in our diet and have ethnomedicinal values without any toxicity. They are the primary sources of food and highly beneficial for the nourishment of health and the prevention of diseases[1]. In different stages of life cycles, these phytochemicals provide various health beneficial activities[2,3]. Proteins, necessary fats, vitamins, and minerals, to develop and for proper functions of life. A large variety of nutrients is essential for our daily diet for well-being. The pleasure of a healthy diet can be one of the unique ethnic preferences of life. Concerns protein malnutrition is a paramount general health issue in emerging countries. Essential nutrients being roots and tubers are mostly stiff
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