1Associate professor, Department of Home Science, Bharathidasan. Govt. College for Women (Autonomous), Puducherry-605003
2M. Phil scholar, PG& Research, Department of Home Science, Bharathidasan. Govt. College for Women (Autonomous), Puducherry-605003, nirmalamany@gmail.com
Fruit wastes are highly perishable and seasonal and are a problem to the processing industries and pollution monitoring agencies. This problem can be recovered by utilizing its high value compounds, including the dietary fibre fraction that has a great potential in the preparation of functional foods whereas Bananas are consumed all over the world, after consumption of the pulp, the peels are generally discarded. The peel of banana represents 40% of the total weight of the fruit. Peel contains potassium (K), calcium (Ca), sodium (Na), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), Copper (Cu), bromine, rubidium, strontium, zirconium and niobium. Banana peels have been reported to be a good source of carotenoids. It is an underutilized source of phenolic compounds and considered as a good source of antioxidants for foods and functional foods against cancer and heart disease.
The present study was carried out tosynthesis of silver nanoparticles from banana peel. Silver nanoparticles have unique properties which help in molecular diagnostics, in therapies, as well as in devices that are used in several medical procedures, The synthesized silver nanoparticles from banana peel was characterized by UV-VIS spectroscopy, Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Particle size analyzer and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR).
The results show that silver nanoparticles which were synthesized from banana peel had a size ranged from 1 and 100 nm. Silver nanoparticles have unique properties which help in molecular diagnostics, in therapies, as well as in devices that are used in several medical procedures, anti-bacterial agents in the health industry, food storage, textile coatings and a number of environmental application.
Banana peels, silver nanoparticles, Particle size
