Nutritional and health aspects of fresh-cut vegetables

Advances in Fresh-Cut Fruits and Vegetables Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 145-184

  De Ancos, Begoña ^a   Sánchez Moreno, Concepción ^a   Plaza, Lucía ^a   Pilar Cano, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DEL FRÍO CSIC   (Spain)

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