Wild plants, mushrooms and nuts : functional food properties and applications
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, UK :
John Wiley &Sons
c2017
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : the increasing demand for functional foods
- 2. The numbers behind mushrooms biodiversity
- 3. The nutritional benefits of mushrooms
- 4. The wide range of bioactive properties of mushrooms
- 5. The use of mushrooms in the development of functional foods, drugs or nutraceuticals
- 6. The consumption of wild edible plants
- 7. Wild greens as source of nutritive and bioactive compounds over the world
- 8. Nutrients and bioactive compounds in wild fruits through different continents
- 9. Wild plant-based functional foods, drugs or nutraceuticals
- 10. Nuts : agricultural and economic importance worldwide
- 11. Recent advances in the biological properties of nuts
- 12. The interest of nuts as sources of nutrients
- 13. The contribution of chestnuts to the design and development of functional foods
- 14. Emerging functional foods derived from almonds