Survey of antioxidant capacity and nutritional quality of selected edible and medicinal fruit plants in Hong Kong

Journal of Food Composition and Analysis

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 510-517

  Huang, Wu Yang ^a   Cai, Yi Zhong ^a   Corke, Harold ^a   Sun, Mei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Antioxidant capacity; Biodiversity and wild foods; Edible and medicinal fruit plants; Fat; Food analysis; Food composition; Nutritional quality; Phenolic compounds; Protein

Indexed keywords

ANNONA; ANNONA SQUAMOSA;

EID: 77957865432     PISSN: 08891575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfca.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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