The human body uses oils and fats in the diet as an energy source, as a structural component and to make powerful biological regulators. The significance of trace metals and toxicological effects of heavy metals on human health and nutrition have been increasingly studied in recent years. Micronutrients play a role in cellular defences, acting both as 'sinks' for free radicals or by being involved in the activity of the enzymes required to deal with the oxidative products e.g. zinc and copper in superoxide dismutase. Presence of metals in edible oil could be from soil or during the manufacturing process. In this present study, the levels of some metals were determined in vegetable oils sold in Zaria, Nigeria. The concentration ranged from 19.

Leaves of Tapinanthus dodoneifolius is used as traditional medicine for the treatment of menstrual   pain, wound, gonorrhea, and control of diarrhea and dysentery which was extracted by cold maceration in methanol. The concentrated methanol extract was subsequently partitioned with petroleum ether, chloroform, ethylacetate and n-butanol. Agar well Diffusion method was used to determine the antimicrobial activities of the extracts against Staphylococcus aureaus, Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiela pneumonia, Salmmnella typhi, Streptococcus pyogenes, Candida krusei, Candida tropicalis, and Candida albican at different concentrations. Antimicrobial sensitivity test indicated that, the extract inhibited the growth of all microorganisms to varying degrees except Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida krusei respectively. The in vitro   antimicrobial screening revealed that, the extracts exhibited diverse activities against different microbe’s concentrations ranging from 2.5mg/ml-5mg/ml. The plant extract was found to contain flavonoids, terpenoids, saponins, tannins and cardiac glycosides which may be responsible for its antimicrobial properties. The result justifies the traditional use of the plant leaf in the treatment of menstrual   pain, sexual transmitted diseases, wounds and control of dysentery and diarrhea.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 or COVID-19 is an infectious disease first identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Prevention of COVID-19 infection is an important thing to do in reducing the spread of this virus. Boosting the body's immune system can be done as a preventive measure, one of which is by consuming natural plants such as red guava. This study aims to determine the molecular docking of red guava (Psidium guajava L.) as a plant to prevent COVID-19. This was an in silico with computerized methods. The samples in this study were ascorbic acid and quercetin compounds in red guava plants obtained from the PubChem website. The results showed that the binding affinity of ascorbic acid is -5.4 and the binding affinity of quercetin is -7.6. Remdesivir which was used as a positive control had a binding affinity of -7.3. In conclusion, quercetin compounds have better results than ascorbic acid compounds and remdesivir.Keywords: COVID-19, red guava, molecular docking  Abstrak: Coronavirus Disease 2019 atau COVID-19 merupakan suatu penyakit menular yang pertama kali ditemukan di Wuhan, Tiongkok pada Desember 2019. Pencegahan infeksi COVID-19 merupakan hal yang penting untuk dilakukan dalam mengurangi penyebaran dari virus ini. Meningkatkan sistem imun tubuh dapat dilakukan sebagai tindakan pencegahan salah satunya dengan mengonsumsi tumbuhan-tumbuhan alami seperti jambu biji merah. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui molecular docking jambu biji merah (Psidium guajava L.) sebagai tanaman pencegah COVID-19. Jenis penelitian ialah in silico dengan metode komputerisasi. Sampel penelitian yaitu senyawa asam askorbat dan kuersetin pada tumbuhan jambu biji merah yang diperoleh dari website pubchem. Hasil penelitian mendapatkan binding affinity dari senyawa asam askorbat yaitu -5.4 dan binding affinity dari senyawa kuersetin yaitu -7.6. Remdesivir yang dijadikan sebagai kontrol positif mendapatkan hasil binding affinity yaitu -7.3. Simpulan penelitian ini ialah senyawa kuersetin memiliki hasil yang lebih baik daripada senyawa asam askorbat dan juga obat remdesivir.Kata kunci: COVID-19, jambu biji merah, molecular docking