Acknowledgments
The authors are thankful to the Nuclear Institute for Foods and Agriculture (NIFA), Ternab, Peshawar, Pakistan for permission to use γ-irradiation facility for this project. HMK would like to acknowledge HEC for a grant for research project.
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