Biopriming of Momordica charantia Seeds with Enterobacter to Improve Nutritional and Biochemical Attributes

Table 3

Proximate and nutritive analyses of the peel and fruit of M. charantia after seed priming with Enterobacter strain FD17.

Proximate analysis	Control M. charantia		Treated M. charantia
	Peel	Fruit	Peel	Fruit
Free amino acids (mg/g)	11.03^b ± 1.05	0.44^a ± 0.05	9.57^a ± 0.31	1.43^a ± 0.02
Crude fiber (%)	3.4^a ± 0.44	3.08^a ± 0.04	3.62^b ± 0.10	2.81^a ± 0.02
Protein (mg/g)	26.78^b ± 0.68	26.62^b ± 1.57	28.63^a ± 0.15	76.20^a ± 3.56
Total soluble sugar (%)	31.16^a ± 0.07	29.0^b ± 3.46	30.82^b ± 0.12	42.53^a ± 1.65
Ash (%)	15.82^a ± 0.75	14.93^a ± 0.46	15.38^a ± 0.75	20.53^a ± 2.57
Peroxidase (U/g)	2.43^a ± 0.57	2.24^b ± 0.41	5.61^a ± 0.34	3.52^a ± 0.53
Catalase (U/g)	374.3^a ± 17	322.9^a ± 48.52	290.13^a ± 4.69	347.47^b ± 34.76
Metabolizable energy (kcal/100 g)	17.04^b ± 0.76	17.1^b ± 0.79	28.94^a ± 0.86	28.87^a ± 0.81
Oil (%)	0.97^a ± 0.01	0.958^a ± 0.01	0.96^a ± 0.01	0.959^a ± 0.01

The results are shown as means of 3 replicates. Values are given as mean (±SD). “a” and “b” show the treatments with a significant difference ().