Profiling selected phytochemicals and nutrients in different tissues of the multipurpose tree Moringa oleifera L., grown in Ghana

Food Chemistry

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1047-1054

  Amaglo, Newton K ^a   Bennett, Richard N ^b   Lo Curto, Rosario B ^c   Rosa, Eduardo A S ^b   Lo Turco, Vincenzo ^c   Giuffrida, Angela ^c   Curto, Alberto Lo ^c   Crea, Francesco ^c   Timpo, Gladys M ^a  

^a KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bioactives; Developmental changes; Horseradish tree; Moringa pterygosperma; Moringaceae

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; FATTY ACID; FLAVONOID; GLUCOSIDE; GLUCOSINOLATE; ISORHAMNETIN; KAEMPFEROL; LINOLENIC ACID; MAGNESIUM; MINERAL; OLEIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID; POTASSIUM; QUERCETIN; RHAMNOSE; SELENIUM; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; CROP; FLOWERING; GHANA; MORINGA OLEIFERA; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PLANT TISSUE; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

MORINGA OLEIFERA; MORINGACEAE;

EID: 77951937329     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2010.03.073     Document Type: Article

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