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Wild plants, mushrooms and nuts : functional food properties and applications / edited by Isabel C. F. R. Ferreira, Patricia Morales, and Lillian Barros.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- THEi Wiley ebooks.
- THEi Wiley ebooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Functional foods.
- Mushrooms.
- Nuts.
- Wild plants, Edible.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (496 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.
- System Details:
- Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).
- Summary:
- Wild Plants, Mushrooms and Nuts: Functional Properties and Food Applications is a compendium of current and novel research on the chemistry, biochemistry, nutritional and pharmaceutical value of traditional food products, namely wild mushrooms, plants and nuts, which are becoming more relevant in diets, and are especially useful for developing novel health foods and in modern natural food therapies. Topics covered will range from their nutritional value, chemical and biochemical characterization, to their multifunctional applications as food with beneficial effects on health, though their biological and pharmacological properties (antioxidant, antibacterial, antifungal, antitumor capacity, among others).
- Contents:
- Introduction : the increasing demand for functional foods
- The numbers behind mushrooms biodiversity
- The nutritional benefits of mushrooms
- The wide range of bioactive properties of mushrooms
- The use of mushrooms in the development of functional foods, drugs or nutraceuticals
- The consumption of wild edible plants
- Wild greens as source of nutritive and bioactive compounds over the world
- Nutrients and bioactive compounds in wild fruits through different continents
- Wild plant-based functional foods, drugs or nutraceuticals
- Nuts : agricultural and economic importance worldwide
- Recent advances in the biological properties of nuts
- The interest of nuts as sources of nutrients
- The contribution of chestnuts to the design and development of functional foods
- Emerging functional foods derived from almonds.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781118944646
- 111894464X
- 9781118944639
- 1118944631
- 9781118944653
- 1118944658
- OCLC:
- 959667474
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