Sclerotia: Emerging Functional Food Derived from Mushrooms

Mushrooms as Functional Foods

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 111-146

  Wong, Ka Hing ^a   Cheung, Peter C K ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Mushroom sclerotia biopharmacological values; Mushroom sclerotia emerging functional food; Sclerotia mushroom and nutritional evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 62249146738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470367285.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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