Food as medicine: functional food plants of Africa
Maurice M. Iwu
This comprehensive book documents African plants used for functional and medicinal foods. It contains more than 60 detailed monographs of African foods, describing foods with various characteristics such as prebiotic, probiotic, satiety, immune modulation, stress-reduction, sports performance, mental acuity, sleep-supporting, metabolic syndrome, antioxidant, and unsaturated fats. Plant description, botanical names and synonyms, plant part used, habitat and distribution, folk use, nutritional content, and chemistry are all fully detailed. The book highlights indigenous African food processing technologies up to the modern era
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Рік:
2017
Видання:
1
Видавництво:
CRC Press
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
406
ISBN 10:
149870610X
ISBN 13:
9781498706100
Серії:
Functional foods & nutraceuticals series
Файл:
PDF, 40.22 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2017