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Wild plants, mushrooms and nuts : functional food properties and applications /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ferreira, Isabel C. F. R., 1979- (Editor ), Gómez, Patricia Morales (Editor ), Barros, Lillian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.