Edible flowers - A new promising source of mineral elements in human nutrition

Molecules

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6672-6683

  Rop, Otakar ^a   Mlcek, Jiri ^a   Jurikova, Tunde ^b   Neugebauerova, Jarmila ^c   Vabkova, Jindriska ^c  

^a TOMAS BATA UNIVERSITY IN ZLIN   (Czech Republic)

^b Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra ^*  (Slovakia)

^c MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Edible flowers; Flavonoids; Mineral element; Phenolics

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; FLAVONOID; MINERAL; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLOWER; HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PLANT;

ANTIOXIDANTS; FLAVONOIDS; FLOWERS; HUMANS; MINERALS; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PHENOLS; PLANTS, EDIBLE;

EID: 84863004146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules17066672     Document Type: Article

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