Chemical characterization of native wild plants of dry seasonal forests of the semi-arid region of northeastern Brazil

Food Research International

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2112-2119

  Do Nascimento, Viviany Teixeira ^a   De Moura, Naíra Paes ^a   Da Silva Vasconcelos, Margarida Angélica ^b   Maciel, Maria Inês Sucupira ^a   De Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino ^a  

^a Rede Nordeste Biotecnologia ^*  (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Caatinga; Food potential; Nutritional composition; Wild food plants

Indexed keywords

AGRO-INDUSTRY; BIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES; CAATINGA; CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION; FOOD PLANTS; FOOD POTENTIAL; FOOD RESOURCES; NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL; NUTRITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITIONS; RURAL COMMUNITY; RURAL POPULATION; SEMI-ARID REGION; WILD FOOD; WILD SPECIES;

ARID REGIONS;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

SIDEROXYLON OBTUSIFOLIUM; SYAGRUS; ZIZIPHUS; ZIZIPHUS JOAZEIRO;

EID: 79960005542     PISSN: 09639969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2010.12.024     Document Type: Article

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