Evaluation Of Nutraceutical Property Of Orange And Banana Peel

Fruits provide a wide range of health-boosting antioxidants, flavonoids, and represent an excellent source of essential vitamins, minerals, and fiber. Eating a diet high in fruits can reduce a person’s risk of developing heart disease, cancer, inflammation and diabetes. Fruit peel is generally peeled or scraped off the majority of fruits, resulting in a large amount of waste. There is a need to capture the goodness of fruit peels for health benefits. As a result, the current research aims to determine the nutritional content of fruit peel for nutraceutical properties. The fruit peels of orange and banana were collected from home kitchens and aqueous fruit peel extracts were prepared and studied for their nutraceutical properties and were found to contain anthocyanin, antioxidant and antimicrobial property. The nutraceutical property of the fruit peel indicated their potential to be used as functional food. Thus, the evaluation of fruit peel powder not only aids in the management of fruit peel waste but also supplies nutritive and therapeutic properties to the body, in addition, orange and banana peels serve as prebiotic sources for various probiotic microorganisms that reside in the stomach environment.