Antioxidative activity of water extracts from the yam (Dioscorea opposita Thunb.) tuber mucilage tororo

European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 526-531

  Nagai, Takeshi ^a   Suzuki, Nobutaka ^b   Nagashima, Toshio ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Mucilage; Scavenger; Tororo; Yam tuber

Indexed keywords

DIOSCOREA ALATA; DIOSCOREA POLYSTACHYA;

EID: 33745661680     PISSN: 14387697     EISSN: 14389312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejlt.200500231     Document Type: Article

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