Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation of Flavonoids from Corchorus olitorius L.

Corchorus olitorius is fibre yielding plant with nutritive value so human used its various parts in their food. Flavonoids  are secondary metabolites  of plants and exist with variable phenolic structures.In the present study carried out the qualitative and quantitative analysis of flavonoids by using chromatographic and spectral studies.Total amount of flavonoids were  found in Corchorus olitorius ( 0.55 mg/gdw in stem and 0.30 mg/gdw in fruit). Thirty three compound were found in GC-MS analysis, Ethyl Oleate found to be maximum from fruits of Corchorus olitorius. Keywords: GC-MS,flavonoids , Corchorus olitorius