Total dietary fiber content in Hawaiian marine algae

Botanica Marina

Volumn 48, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 437-440

  McDermid, Karla J ^a   Stuercke, Brooke ^a,b   Haleakala, Owen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dietary fiber; Edible seaweed; Hawaii; Nutritional composition

Indexed keywords

DIGESTIBILITY; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PALATABILITY; SEAWEED;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AHNFELTIOPSIS CONCINNA; ALGAE; CHELONIA (GENUS); CHLOROPHYTA; CODIUM REEDIAE; GAYRALIA OXYSPERMA; PHAEOPHYCEAE; RHODOPHYTA; SARGASSUM; SARGASSUM OBTUSIFOLIUM; TESTUDINES; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 29144530958     PISSN: 00068055     EISSN: 14374323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BOT.2005.057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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