Safety evaluation of some wild plants in the New Nordic Diet

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4461-4467

  Mithril, Charlotte ^a   Dragsted, Lars Ove ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bioactive components; New Nordic Diet; OPUS; Toxicology; Wild plants

Indexed keywords

OXALIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DRINKING; EATING; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SAFETY; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; PLANT; RUMEX; RUMEX ACETOSA; STELLARIA; STELLARIA MEDIA; URTICA DIOICA; WILD PLANT;

CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DIET; HUMANS; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PLANTS, EDIBLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUMEX; STELLARIA; URTICA DIOICA;

CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; URTICA DIOICA;

EID: 84867236384     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2012.09.016     Document Type: Article

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