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Okra and Fenugreek Extracts Safely Take away Microplastics From Water in New Texas Analysis

Editorial Board Published May 11, 2025
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Okra plant By Mae Monares

The substances behind the slimy strings from okra and the gel from fenugreek seeds may lure microplastics higher than a generally used artificial polymer.

Texas researchers proposed in 2022 utilizing these sticky pure polymers to wash up water. Now, they’ve discovered that okra and/or fenugreek extracts attracted and eliminated as much as 90% of microplastics from ocean water, freshwater, and groundwater.

With funding from the U.S. Division of Power, Rajani Srinivasan and colleagues at Tarleton State College discovered that the plant-based polymers from okra, fenugreek, and tamarind stick with microplastics, clumping collectively and sinking for straightforward separation from water.

On this subsequent stage of the analysis, they’ve optimized the method for okra and fenugreek extracts and examined leads to a wide range of sorts of water.

To extract the sticky plant polymers, the staff soaked sliced okra pods and blended fenugreek seeds in separate containers of water in a single day. Then, researchers eliminated the dissolved extracts from every resolution and dried them into powders.

Analyses revealed within the American Chemical Society journal confirmed that the powdered extracts contained polysaccharides, that are pure polymers. Preliminary exams in pure water spiked with microplastics confirmed that:

One gram of both powder in a quart (one liter) of water trapped microplastics essentially the most successfully.
Dried okra and fenugreek extracts eliminated 67% and 93%, respectively, of the plastic in an hour.
A combination of equal components okra and fenugreek powder reached most removing effectivity (70%) inside half-hour.
The pure polymers carried out considerably higher than the artificial, commercially accessible polyacrylamide polymer utilized in wastewater therapy.

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Then the researchers examined the plant extracts on actual microplastic-polluted water. They collected samples from waterbodies round Texas and introduced them to the lab. The plant extract removing effectivity modified relying on the unique water supply.

Okra labored finest in ocean water (80%), fenugreek in groundwater (80-90%), and the 1:1 mixture of okra and fenugreek in freshwater (77%).

The researchers hypothesize that the pure polymers had completely different efficiencies as a result of every water pattern had differing types, styles and sizes of microplastics.

Polyacrylamide, which is at the moment used to take away contaminants throughout wastewater therapy, has low toxicity, however its precursor acrylamide is taken into account poisonous. Okra and fenugreek extracts may function biodegradable and unhazardous options.

“Utilizing these plant-based extracts in water treatment will remove microplastics and other pollutants without introducing additional toxic substances to the treated water,” mentioned Srinivasan in a media launch, “thus reducing long-term health risks to the population.”

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She had beforehand studied the usage of food-grade plant extracts as non-toxic flocculants to take away textile-based pollution from wastewater and thought, ‘Why not try microplastics?’

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