Estimation of Fluoride content in ground growth green vegetables leaves (amaranths) at surrounding villages of nalgonda district Andhra Pradesh by using kit colour comparison method.
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2013-08
Authors
Raja, M Alagar
Goud, M Vamsheedhar
Banji, David
Rao, K N V
Kumar, D Selva
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Fluoride is found to be an important trace element playing a key role in the dental and skeletal formation in humans. It is generally believed that
including human being consume fluoride largely from drinking water sources and the total daily intake of fluoride by individuals from water and other sources varies
from place to place depending on the amount of fluoride availability in water and other sources including food. Earlier it was believed that food was not a rich
source of fluoride for humans but it is now well documented that certain types of food can have high fluoride content. Therefore the present research work is to
study the fluoride content in leafy vegetable samples(amaranthus) collected from five different gram panchayat’s(villages) of Nalgonda district by using kit colour
comparison method and report the fluoride content in the collected samples. finally it was found that the fluoride content in all the samples were found to ranging
from 2.20-2.85mg/kg which is considered to be under safe zone(0.3-2.8mg/kg) and consumption of this leafy vegetables will not affect the humans.
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Dental and skeletal formation, Fluoride, Leaf vegetable, Food, Kit colour Comparison method, Nalgonda
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Raja M Alagar, Goud M Vamsheedhar, Banji David, Rao K N V, Kumar D Selva. Estimation of Fluoride content in ground growth green vegetables leaves (amaranths) at surrounding villages of nalgonda district Andhra Pradesh by using kit colour comparison method. International Journal of Research and Development in Pharmacy and Life Sciences. 2013 Aug-Sept; 2(5): 559-561.