Emerging Knowledge of the Bioactivity of Foods in the diets of indigenous North Americans

Bioactive Foods in Promoting Health

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 71-84

  Schauss, Alexander G ^a  

^a AIBMR Life Sciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Amaranthus hybridusaldose reductase; Amelanchier alnifolia; Bioactive foods; Camassia quamash; Carnegiea gigantean; Diabetes; Inulin; Lithocarpus densilorus; Maize; Native and indigenous diet; North America; Obesity.; Pacific Northwest; Prunus virginiana; Shepherdia argentea; Sonoran Desert; Stenocereus thurberi; Viburnum trilobum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882561378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374628-3.00005-0     Document Type: Chapter

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