Nutritional composition of Gongronema latifolium Vernonia amygdalina

Nutrition & Food Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 99-109

  Sporns, Peter ^b   Bressler, David C ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Medicinal plants; Nutrition; Plants

Indexed keywords

GONGRONEMA LATIFOLIUM; VERNONIA; VERNONIA AMYGDALINA;

EID: 41749106262     PISSN: 00346659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00346650810862975     Document Type: Article

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