ANALYSES OF PHYTOCHEMICAL, BIOCHEMICAL, PIGMENTS AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF SEAGRASS SYRINGODIUM ISOETIFOLIUM

Abstract

Seagrasses are valuable food source and contains significant quantities of proteins, lipids, vitamins and minerals etc. In the present study, seagrass Syringodium isoetifolium was subjected to biochemical, phytochemical and pigments analysis. The study indicated that the S. isoetifolium showing high photosynthetic pigments and carbohydrate. Likewise acetone and methanol extracts of S. isoetifolium showed positive activity with phytoconstituents such as steroids, protein, glycosides, alkaloids and phenolic compounds but tannin and terpenoids showed negative activity. The study concluded that the S. isoetifolium could be a good candidate in food, feed and biomedical field as it contains rich biochemical profile.