Nutritional quality of ten leafy vegetables harvested at two light intensities

Food Chemistry

Volumn 199, Issue , 2016, Pages 702-710

  Colonna, Emma ^a   Rouphael, Youssef ^a   Barbieri, Giancarlo ^a   De Pascale, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Ascorbic acid; Baby leaf; Light intensity at harvest; Mineral composition; Nitrate

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANTS; CALCIUM; HARVESTING; NITRATES; ORGANIC ACIDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; ROCKETS; VEGETABLES;

ANTI-OXIDANT ACTIVITIES; BABY LEAF; HYDROPHILIC ANTIOXIDANTS; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIPOPHILIC ANTIOXIDANTS; MINERAL COMPOSITION; NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITIONS; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION;

ASCORBIC ACID;

NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PLANT LEAF; VEGETABLE;

LIGHT; NITRATES; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PHENOLS; PLANT LEAVES; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84951149477     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: 18737072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2015.12.068     Document Type: Article

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