Abstract:
The aquatic plant water spinach, Ipomea aquatica either wild or cultivated, is a
widely consumed vegetable throughout the Southeast Asia. Due to the
unplanned dumping of the garbage to the environment, industrialization and with
automobile discharge, a heavy metal, lead which is toxic to the human being
enters to the environment and plants like I. aquatica has the ability to absorb and
accumulate lead which can then be entered to human body via consuming it as a
food.
