Lipids, tocopherols, and carotenoids in leaves of amaranth and quinoa cultivars and a new approach to overall evaluation of nutritional quality traits

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 62, Issue 52, 2014, Pages 12610-12619

  Tang, Yao ^a,b   Li, Xihong ^a   Chen, Peter X ^b,c   Zhang, Bing ^b,d   Hernandez, Marta ^b   Zhang, Hua ^b   Marcone, Massimo F ^d   Liu, Ronghua ^b   Tsao, Rong ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b GUELPH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^c NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amaranth; Carotenoids; DPPH; Fatty acids; FRAP and ORAC; Leaf; Nutritional quality; Quinoa; Tocopherols

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACIDS; ISOMERS; NUTRIENTS; PIGMENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

AMARANTH; CAROTENOIDS; DPPH; FRAP AND ORAC; LEAF; NUTRITIONAL QUALITIES; QUINOA; TOCOPHEROLS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AMARANTHUS CAUDATUS; CHENOPODIUM QUINOA;

CAROTENOID; FATTY ACID; LIPID; PLANT EXTRACT; TOCOPHEROL;

AMARANTHUS; CHEMISTRY; CHENOPODIUM QUINOA; ISOMERISM; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PLANT LEAF;

AMARANTHUS; CAROTENOIDS; CHENOPODIUM QUINOA; FATTY ACIDS; ISOMERISM; LIPIDS; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; TOCOPHEROLS;

EID: 84920113031     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: 15205118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf5046377     Document Type: Article

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