Health Benefits of Almonds

Cereal Foods World

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 6-10

  Lapsley, Karen G ^a   Huang, Guangwei ^a  

^a Almond Board of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINISHED PRODUCTS; HEALTH BENEFITS;

BLOOD; BYPRODUCTS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CHOLESTEROL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLAVORS; FOOD PROCESSING; FRUITS; HEALTH; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MARKETING; NUTRITION; OILS AND FATS; PROTEINS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

FOOD PRODUCTS;

PRUNUS DULCIS; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 1542285244     PISSN: 01466283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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