3.1 Preliminary Phytochemical Screening
Table 1 presents preliminary phytochemical screening results ofS. mombin leaf extracts obtained from methanol (SMM). Experiments
were performed in triplicates.
The presence of alkaloids, anthraquinones derivatives, terpenoids,
saponins, flavonoids and tannins were identified in the leaf extract
except for steroids. This result is in line with other authors who have
reported the same (Ayoka et al., 2005,
Nworu et al., 2007,
Igwe et al., 2010,
Shittu et al., 2014).
Table 1: Phytochemical
screening of methanolic leaf extracts of Spondias mombin.