Traditional and ayurvedic foods of Indian origin

Journal of Ethnic Foods

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 97-109

  Sarkar, Preetam ^a   Lohith, Kumar D H ^a   Dhumal, Chanda ^a   Panigrahi, Shubham Subrot ^a   Choudhary, Ruplal ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ayurvedic foods; Functional foods; health foods; Indian foods; Nutraceuticals; Weaning foods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943356913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23526181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jef.2015.08.003     Document Type: Article

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