Table 1: Arsenic ameliorating effect and calorie value of the foodstuffs of proposed diet plan.

Name of the diet

Used parts

Experimental animals

Mechanism

Calorie value/100 g

Reference

Allium sativum

Bulb

Rat, mice

Chelation, antioxidant

149 calories

Chowdhury, et al. 2008 [32]

Amaranthus spinosus

Aerial part

Cattle

Chelation, antioxidant

23 calories

Hazarika, et al. 2015 [25]

Ananas cosmosus

Fruit

Rat

Chelation

50 calories

Desai, et al. 2012 [36]

Camellia sinensis

Leaves

Rabbit, rat

Antioxidant

87 calories

Acharyya, et al. 2014 [29]; Sinha, et al. 2010 [30]

Carica papaya

Fruit

Mice

Chelation

40 calories

Singh, et al. 2013 [34]

Curcuma longa

Rhizome

Cattle, sheep

Chelation, antioxidant

390 calories

Hazarika, et al. 2015 [25]; Biswas, et al. 2017 [26]; Maji, et al. 2020 [27]

Curcumin

 

Human

Antioxidant

 

Biswas, et al. 2010 [22]

Eclipta alba

Aerial part

Cattle

Antioxidant

18 calories

Hazarika, et al. 2015 [25]

Folic acid

 

Human

Methylation

 

Gruber, et al. 2012 [23]

Methionine

 

Human

Methylation

 

Gruber, et al. 2012 [23]

Moringa olifera

Leaves

Rat, mice

Chelation, antioxidant

30 calories

Sheikh, et al. 2014 [31]

Protein

 

Human

Methylation

 

Gruber, et al. 2012 [23]

Paederia foetida

Leaves

Sheep

Antioxidant

 

Maji, et al. 2020 [27]

Tea polyphenols

 

Human

DNA repair

 

Sinha, et al. 2007 [21]

Trichosanthes dioica

Fruit

Rat

Antioxidant

20 calories

Bhattacharya, et al. 2014 [35]

Vitamin-B12

 

Human

Methylation

 

Gruber, et al. 2012 [23]

Vitamin- C

 

Rat

Antioxidant

 

Singh and Rana 2007 [18]

Zea mays

Fruit

Rat

Chelation

85 calories

Chowdhury, et al. 2009 [33]

Zingiber officinalis

Rhizome

Calves

Chelation, antioxidant

79 calories

Biswas, et al. 2017 [26]