Nutritional Composition of Some Wild Plant Foods and Honey Used by Hadza Foragers of Tanzania

Journal of Food Composition and Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-13

  Murray, Shawn S ^a   Schoeninger, Margaret J ^a   Bunn, Henry T ^a   Pickering, Travis R ^a   Marlett, Judith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Hunter gatherers; Tanzania; East Africa; wild plant foods; baobab; honey; Hadza; food composition.

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035743055     PISSN: 08891575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfca.2000.0960     Document Type: Article

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