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Dr. Y. S. Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Solan

Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, was established on 1st December, 1985 with the objective to promote education, research and extension education in the fields of Horticulture, Forestry and allied disciplines. Late Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the first Chief Minister and the architect of Himachal Pradesh perceived the importance of Horticulture and Forestry to develop and improve the State economy which led to the establishment of this University. Its history lies in erstwhile Himachal Agricultural College, Solan, established in 1962 and affiliated to the Panjab University. It became one of the campuses of Agriculture Complex of Himachal Pradesh University on its formation in 1970. Consequent upon the establishment of Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya in 1978, this campus became its Horticulture Complex and finally in 1985, assumed the status of a State University, being the only University in the country engaged exclusively in teaching, research and extension in Horticulture and Forestry. The University is located at Nauni in Solan District of Himachal Pradesh, 13 km from Solan on Solan-Rajgarh Road, at an elevation of 1300 metres above mean sea level. Solan town is situated on national highway (NH-22) and is well connected by train and bus services. The University has four constituent colleges, out of which, two are located at the main campus Nauni, one for horticulture and the other for forestry, having 9 and 7 departments, respectively. The third College i.e., College of Horticulture & Forestry is located at Neri in Hamirpur District on Nadaun-Hamirpur state highway, about 6 Km from Hamirpur town and is well connected with bus service. The college offers three Undergraduate Degree Programmes i.e. BSc (Hons.) Horticulture, BSc (Hons.) Forestry and B. Tech. Biotechnology and MSc degree programme in a few subjects. The fourth college i.e. College of Horticulture and Forestry, Thunag (Mandi) is located at Thunag District Mandi. This college offer BSc (Hons.) Horticulture and BSc (Hons.) Forestry degree programme. In addition, there are five Regional Research Stations, 12 Satellite Stations and five Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) situated in different zones of the State.

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Subject: Forest Products × Author: BHANGALIA, TANYA × Start date: 2020 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF BASIL BASED HERBAL TEA
    (UHF,NAUNI, 2022-01) BHANGALIA, TANYA; SHARMA, Y P
    ABSTRACT The present investigation entitled “Development and evaluation of basil based herbal tea” was carried out in the laboratory of the Department of Forest Products, College of Forestry, Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan (HP) during 2020-21. Eight different types of herbal teas were developed using different medicinal plants and examined in comparison with two different market herbal teas for their physicochemical properties. The developed herbal teas were evaluated for their total phenolic content, total flavonoid content, total polyphenolic content and antioxidant properties through different assays. All the raw material used for the development of herbal teas was also analyzed for their physicochemical properties. Out of the 8 different developed herbal teas, the treatment T2 scored best with overall acceptability of 8.17 in the sensory evaluation as compared to market herbal tea, with a score of 6.82. The treatment T2 showed highest total phenolic content, total flavonoid content and total polyphenolic content as well. Five different antioxidant evaluation assays viz. DPPH radical scavenging assay, nitric oxide scavenging assay, reducing power assay, hydrogen radical scavenging assay and total antioxidant assay were used to evaluate the antioxidant activity of developed herbal tea. The herbal teas tested in this study showed significant antioxidant activities. The herbal tea T2 outperformed all the developed herbal teas and market herbal teas in the antioxidant assays. The correlation values between the antioxidant assays and total phenolic/flavonoid content showed that the teas which had the most augmented polyphenolic content commensurated with the antioxidant capacity. The total phenolic content of treatment T2 was 201.13 ± 8.02 mg GAE/g which was very high in comparison to the market herbal tea i.e. 108.46 ± 5.13 mg GAE/g. The total flavonoid content of treatment T2 was 138.97 ± 3.87 mg RE/g while that of market tea was 69.23 ± 3.69 mg RE/g. From our results, it can be concluded that the developed basil based herbal teas showed high total phenolic content, total flavonoid content, total polyphenolic content and antioxidant activities, as compared to herbal teas procured from local market