Phytochemical Analysis of different parts of Annona squamosa L

Abstract: Phytochemicals are non-nutrient bioactive components found in plants that are primarily responsible for scavenging toxic radicals after oxidative stress by generating antioxidants, the main cause of most chronic diseases. Phytochemical screening is to isolate various constituents of the plants for assessing their biological activity or medicinal uses. The Qualitative analysis is very essential to identify the phytochemical constituents present in medicinal plants. The medicinal value of plants is due to the presence of particular bioactive constituents. Annona squamosa is an important medicinal plant which found in tropical and subtropical area. In India this plant is used as medicine traditionally. Each part of the plant is used to treat various diseases. Hence this present study is focused to screen the presence of phytochemicals in different parts (stem, leaf, flower and seeds) of the Annona plant. Totally 15 phytochemical screening tests were conducted. The methanol extracts of leaves and seeds showed a greater number of phytochemicals than other two extracts. We have found out phytochemicals like tannins, flavonoids, terpenoids, steroids, phlobatanins, alkaloids, anthroquinones, anthocyanins, leucoanthocyanins and emodins in leaves and seeds extracts.

Keywords: Bioactive, Medicine, alkaloids, flavonoids, and anthocyanins