Nutritional Yield: A Proposed Index for Fresh Food Improvement Illustrated with Leafy Vegetable Data

Plant Foods for Human Nutrition

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 215-222

  Bumgarner, Natalie R ^a   Scheerens, Joseph C ^a   Kleinhenz, Matthew D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidant yield; Carotene yield; Lactuca sativa; Lettuce; Microclimate modification; Secondary metabolites

Indexed keywords

LACTUCA; LACTUCA SATIVA;

EID: 84866742725     PISSN: 09219668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11130-012-0306-0     Document Type: Article

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