Amaranth seeds and products - The source of bioactive compounds

Polish Journal of Food and Nutrition Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 165-170

  Ogrodowska, Dorota ^a   Zadernowski, Ryszard ^a   Czaplicki, Sylwester ^a   Derewiaka, Dorota ^b   Wronowska, Beata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

amaranth; expanded seeds; flakes; squalene; sterols; tocopherols

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907659767     PISSN: 12300322     EISSN: 20836007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10222-012-0095-z     Document Type: Article

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