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.
Food as Medicine Ebook
Functional Food Plants of Africa
By: Maurice M. Iwu
Publisher:
CRC Press
Print ISBN: 9781498706094, 1498706096
eText ISBN: 9781315354385, 1315354381
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 2017
Format: EPUB
Available from $ 122.00 USD
SKU: 9781315354385R90
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