10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12 Volume 7 Issue 2 2016 (April - June) The Sundarban is a natural region in the Bengal region comprising Eastern India and Bangladesh. It is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world. Only a limited number of plant sp. thrive in mangrove eco-system. In Indian Sundarban the mangal vegetation comprises of 94 intertidal sp. but less than 10 sp. are utilized by the locals as food & fodder materials. lessThan i greaterThan Avicenna alba lessThan /i greaterThan , is one of them .Local people of Sundarban use this fruit as vegetable. The present study was aimed to identify the various micro-nutrients and phytochemical constituents by ICP-OES analysis and GC-MS analysis. The results for the first time revealed the presence of several bioactive components in the fruit of lessThan i greaterThan Avicenna alba. lessThan /i greaterThan RIA HALDER, PRANABES SANYAL AND SUNITI GHOSH CHATTERJI Mangrove fruits, Indian Sundarban, phytochemical, bioactive components. 610-616