RT Journal T1 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE INORGANIC NUTRIENTS IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF ZEA MAYS L. USING INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY A1 S. Qamar A1 M. Aslam A1 F. Z. Huyop A1 M. A. Javed JF Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences JO JAPS SN 1018-7081 VO 27 IS 4 SP 1315 OP 1320 YR 2017 FD 2017/08/01 DO DOI NA AB

Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) was used in this study to perform a quantitative elemental analysis in order to compare the inorganic nutrients in commercial white and noncommercial yellow maize flours. ICP-MS measurements reveals that  both white and yellow maize flours contains 20 different elements including toxic elements (Pb, Cd, As, Ni, Cr, Sr, U), essential elements (Ca, Co, Se, Zn, Cu, Fe, Mn, Mo ) and probably essential elements (Mg, K, Na, Ba, Al) and their crossponding nutrients values were compared in detail. The ICP-MS analysis revealed that inorganic elements such as Al, As, Ba, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, Ni, Pb, U, Zn have concentration of 168.19, 0.17, 2.13, 1327.56, 0.04, 0.12, 9.14, 5.43, 82.03, 34.90, 99.62, 2.83, 0.74, 96.09, 4.5, 9.49, 6.12, 0.03, 6.47 µg/g in white and 200.05, 0.17, 2.53, 1290.27, 0.04, 0.145, 9.85, 11.46, 115.13, 914.98, 1594.14, 21.48, 1.71, 63.89, 6.08, 17.05, 5.23, 0.027, 33.89 µg/g in yellow maize flour, respectively. On the other hand toxic elements such as Cd or Pb in both white and yellow maize flours does not exceed their maximum limit set by the European Legislation or values recommended by the codex alimentarius.

K1 inorganic nutrients, white and yellow maize flours, comparative analysis, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry PB Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum LK https://thejaps.org.pk/AbstractView.aspx?mid=2017-JAPS-166