Background and Objectives: The present study was conducted to evaluate the presence of biochemical contents and trace elements, and detect phytochemicals in the edible part extracts of Asparagus officinalis DC and Chlorophytum comosum Linn by HPTLC. Materials and Methods: The biochemical contents and trace elements were determined by different biochemical methods, and trace elements’ presence ...

Henry, Kosterlitz & Quenouille (1953) have described a method of determining the nutritive value of a protein by the effect it has on the quantity of protein in the liver of the rat. They found that the liver nitrogen, expressed as mg/Ioo g body-weight, was correlated with the biological value of the dietary protein and with the amount of protein eaten. When the proteins were tabulated accordin...