“…Minerals constitute important components of hormones, enzymes and enzyme activators in human nutrition (Kirtpatrick and Coffin, 1974; Khan et al, 1987;Lall, 1989Lall, , 1995. Food source and environmental factors affect minerals content (Anthony et al, 1983;King et al, 1990; Lee et al, 1993;Skonberg and Perkins, 2003;Gokoglu and Yerlikaya, 2003;Yannar and Celik, 2006). Mineral components such as sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron, phosphorus and iodine are important for human nutrition (Sikorski et al, 1990).…”