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MINERAL CONTENT OF TREE SAP FROM THE SUBCARPATHIAN REGION

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but also as medicinal substance in folk medicine. Traditionally, it was used to treat various conditions, mostly anaemia and chronic fatigue. This study has been designed to establish the content of metallic elements (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc and copper) in sap collected from eight different species (silver birch, downy birch, hornbeam, Norway maple, boxelder maple, black walnut, black alder and white willow) and to identify which sap has mineral content which would be most beneficial for human health. We measured concentrations of calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium and zinc on an atomic absorption spectrometer equipped with single-element, hollow cathode lamps and an air/acetylene burner. The content of copper was determined using an atomic absorption spectrometer with Zeeman correction equipped with an electrothermal atomizer and argon as inert gas. White willow sap was determined to have the highest concentrations of magnesium, zinc, calcium and potassium. Moreover, this sap contained the lowest concentration of sodium among all the tree species. The sap with the lowest detected concentration of the metallic elements originated from black alder and boxelder. In conclusion, tree sap can be a valuable source of metallic elements, namely copper, zinc and magnesium, in human diet. Tree sap tapped from white willow is the most valuable in terms of its mineral content. Moreover, the most popular sap of sliver birch has proven to be a rich source of magnesium and zinc.

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  • Photo of  Maciej Bilek

    Maciej Bilek

    • University of Rzeszów, Department of Food and Agriculture Production Engineering
  • Photo of  Kinga Stawarczyk

    Kinga Stawarczyk

    • University of Rzeszów, Institute of Applied Biotechnology and Basic Science Department of Botany,
  • Photo of  Michał Gostkowski

    Michał Gostkowski

    • Warsaw University of Life Sciences Department of Econometrics and Statistics
  • Photo of  Katarzyna Kędziora

    Katarzyna Kędziora

    • The Netherlands Cancer Institute Division of Cell Biology
  • Photo of  Ewa Cieślik

    Ewa Cieślik

    • University of Agriculture in Kraków, Malopolska Centre of Food Monitoring Department of Nutrition Technology and Consumption

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Category:
Articles
Type:
artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
Published in:
Journal of Elementology no. 21, pages 669 - 679,
ISSN: 1644-2296
Language:
English
Publication year:
2016
Bibliographic description:
Bilek M., Stawarczyk K., Gostkowski M., Olszewski M., Kędziora K., Cieślik E.: MINERAL CONTENT OF TREE SAP FROM THE SUBCARPATHIAN REGION// Journal of Elementology. -Vol. 21, nr. 3 (2016), s.669-679
DOI:
Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.5601/jelem.2015.20.4.932
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Gdańsk University of Technology

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