Josiah Ndukwe

Nutritional Compositions and In-vivo Antioxidant Effect of Corchorus olitorius Ethanol Leaf Extract in CCl4-induced Oxidative Stress in Wistar Rats

Josiah Ndukwe, Antoinette N. C. Okaka, Victor Henry Azubuike Enemor, Uchechukwu Chibuzo Ogbodo & Precious Uchenna Ezeobi · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2021

Background: Oxidative stress has been implicated in the pathophysiology of various disease conditions with concomitant toll on the body’s defense mechanism against free radicals. To continuously sustain and support the efficiency of the body’s antioxidant defense system, natural...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ejnfs/2021/v13i530421

Comparative Assay of the Nutritional Composition and Antioxidant Effect of the Cotyledon and Pulp of Chrysophyllum albidum fruit

Precious Uchenna Ezeobi, Innocent Onyeze Igwilo, Uchechukwu Chibuzo Ogbodo & Josiah Ndukwe · International Journal of Biochemistry Research & Review · 2021

Background: Chrysophyllum albidum has been widely consumed for its flesh part as a fruit snack and source of vitamins but also grossly under-utilized because of dearth of knowledge on nutritional and therapeutic potencies of other fruit parts. This study thus aimed to comparative...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ijbcrr/2021/v30i430263