GREEN SALADS AS A SOUR E OF VITAMINS AND MINERALS

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Food Industries Dept ,Fac. of Agrlc . ,:Mansoura Uni Mansoura Egypt.

2 Food Tech .Res . Inst ., Agric . Res. Center, Giza. Egypt.

Abstract

Fre..,h green salads are a popular (ood which consumed daily by different age
stages of rich and poor people for their law price and high nutritive value.
So , this investigation was designed to find out the most nutritive different salad
samples Moreover; find out the quantity of different salads which covered the dally
rec.ull'fm\oants of vitamin A, \litam;n C '. iron; calcium; phosphorus and zinc for
different age stages.
The f'esh salad samples which mare or less covered the daily requirements of
vitamin A;vitamin C: iron: calcium; phosphorus and zinc for all age stages in case that
!'lese salads were the only source of such components in dflll)l diet can be arranqed
In the followtng descending order :
First sample: contains tomatoes ,cucumber: red pepper; green min! ; garden
rocket ; parsley ; green onion : dried shamy bread ; olive oil: black olives; black
pepper: lemon juice: salt and vinegar.
Second sample: contains tomatoes ; red pepper: parsley , garlic ; green
oniol\;olive oil; lemon JUIce " baited chick ~a and sal\ .