Nutrition value of Viburnum L. (Adoxaceae) fruits

Abstract

The study of the chemical composition of fruits and seeds in some types of viburnum fruits and the identification of chemical elements localization in their various parts by the energy-dispersion analysis on an electronic ion-raster scanning microscope Quanta 200 3D are presented in this contribution. Elemental analysis of fruits and seeds of viburnum species allowed, for the first time, identifying 10 chemical elements in their composition, and these are oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, sodium, magnesium, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, potassium and calcium. Different parts of fruits and seeds differ in the percentage of individual chemical elements in them.

Keywords

• viburnum l
• scanning electron microscopy
• elemental composition
• medical plant