Valeurs nutritives et toxicité du <i>foenicululm vulgare</i> miller

Abstract

Food values and toxicity of the

foenicululm vulgare miller

Foeniculum vulagre

Mill. plant aromatic, spontaneous and wides pread in algeria is used by the population for its medicinal virtues. Our samples, coming from the Algerian west, showed that the contents of the principal compounds resulting from the primary metabolism and for each part of the plant (soed, stem and roots) are interesting for proteins (17,5 %) and lipids (12 %) and relatively  weak for glucids (13 %). The presence of toxic components coming from the secondary metabolism in particular the coumarins and tanins, made up recognized like inhibiting the digestibility of proteins, influential on the evolution of the ponderal mass of the animal (rat "Wistar"). The saponosides, flavonoïdes, sterols and steroïdes, tanins, coumarins, alcaloïdes, anthracenosides, anthocyanosides and emodols with little or no presence, have only little influence on the digestibility qualities of the plant. The output of 2,7 % in essential oil from the flowering plant is interesting and is in conformity with those obtained by the literature.