{"id":6156,"date":"2025-12-24T08:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ptfos.unios.hr\/novicjfst\/?p=6156"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:41:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:41:37","slug":"cjfst-2025-17-2-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ptfos.unios.hr\/novicjfst\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/cjfst-2025-17-2-09\/","title":{"rendered":"CJFST.2025.17.2.09"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Determination of the content of micro and macro elements in laurel samples from the region of Herzegovina<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1118-4565\"Vesna Gojkovi\u0107 Cvjetkovi\u01071*<\/sup>, \"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-3648-0527\"\u017deljka Marjanovi\u0107-Balaban2<\/sup>, \"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4207-1742\"Vesna Antunovi\u01073<\/sup>, \"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1699-2433\"Milan Vuki\u01071<\/sup>, Milenko Smiljani\u01071<\/sup>, \"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1699-2433\"Dragan Vujadinovi\u01071<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n

1<\/sup><\/em>University of East Sarajevo, Faculty of Technology Zvornik, Karakaj 34a, 75 400 Zvornik, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
\n<\/em>2<\/sup><\/em>University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Forestry Banja Luka, Bulevar vojvode Petra Bojovi\u0107a 1A, 78 000 Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
\n<\/em>3<\/sup><\/em>University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Medicine Banja Luka, Department of pharmacy, Bulevar vojvode Petra Bojovi\u0107a 1A, 78 000 Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
ARTICLE INFO<\/strong><\/td>\nABSTRACT<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TYPE: <\/strong>Original scientific paper<\/em>
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.17508\/CJFST.2025.17.2.09<\/a>
\nPDF<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n		Laurel (Laurus nobilis<\/em> L.) is an evergreen shrub or tree from the Lauraceae<\/em> family. It is most commonly used as a spice. Laurel leaves contain essential oil, bitter substances and tannins. It has a very aromatic, slightly spicy, astringent and bitter taste. It is also often used as a preservative. However, in addition to having numerous advantages, the presence of heavy metals, even in low concentrations, can be toxic and cause numerous diseases. The aim of this work was to determine the content of micro- and macro- elements in laurel samples from the Herzegovina region. The content of metals in soil samples from which laurel was collected was also determined. The samples were prepared by wet digestion. The content of micro- and macro- elements was determined by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). According to the results, calcium exhibited the highest concentration among the macroelements (9055.59\u00b124.71 mg\/kg), whereas sodium exhibited the lowest (259.96\u00b11.25 mg\/kg). The measured content of heavy metals is below the detection limit in laurel, and in soil samples it does not exceed the maximum allowed values.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
*<\/strong>CORRESPONDENCE
\n<\/strong>Vesna Gojkovi\u0107 Cvjetkovi\u0107
\nvesna.gojkovic@tfzv.ues.rs.ba<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ARTICLE HISTORY
\n<\/strong>Received: June 26, 2025
\nAccepted: July 23, 2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CITATION
\n<\/strong>Gojkovi\u0107 Cvjetkovi\u0107 V, Marjanovi\u0107-Balaban \u017d, Antunovi\u0107 V, Vuki\u0107 M, Smiljani\u0107 M, Vujadinovi\u0107 D. Determination of the content of micro and macro elements in laurel samples from the region of Herzegovina. Croatian Journal of Food Science and Technology (2025) 17 (2) 1 \u2013 9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/strong>C<\/strong>OPYRIGHT: <\/strong>\u00a9 2025 by the author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY)<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
KEYWORDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

micro and macro elements; laurel; Herzegovina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

KEY CONTRIBUTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Laurel is one of the most commonly used spices. It is a good source of macronutrients.
\nThe use of the ICP-OES method is a rapid method for the determination of micro- and macro- elements in laurel and soil samples.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Determination of the content of micro and macro elements in laurel samples from the region of Herzegovina Vesna Gojkovi\u0107 Cvjetkovi\u01071*, \u017deljka Marjanovi\u0107-Balaban2, Vesna Antunovi\u01073, Milan Vuki\u01071, Milenko Smiljani\u01071, Dragan Vujadinovi\u01071 1University of East Sarajevo, Faculty of Technology Zvornik, Karakaj 34a, 75 400 Zvornik, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2University of Banja Luka, Faculty of … Op\u0161irnije<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nekategorizirano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ptfos.unios.hr\/novicjfst\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ptfos.unios.hr\/novicjfst\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ptfos.unios.hr\/novicjfst\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ptfos.unios.hr\/novicjfst\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ptfos.unios.hr\/novicjfst\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ptfos.unios.hr\/novicjfst\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6171,"href":"https:\/\/www.ptfos.unios.hr\/novicjfst\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156\/revisions\/6171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ptfos.unios.hr\/novicjfst\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ptfos.unios.hr\/novicjfst\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ptfos.unios.hr\/novicjfst\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}