The effect of blanching, freezing and freeze-storage on changes of some chemical compounds content in new zealand spinach

Vegetable Crops Research Bulletin

Volumn 66, Issue , 2007, Pages 95-103

  Grzeszczuk, Monika ^a   Jadczak, Dorota ^a   Podsiad, Cezary ^b  

^a WEST POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Department of Physics and Biophysics   (Poland)

Author keywords

freeze storage; New Zealand spinach; nutritive value; processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650026882     PISSN: 15069427     EISSN: 18987761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10032-007-0012-x     Document Type: Article

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