Food as Medicine: Functional Food Plants of Africa
- ISBN-10
- 149870610X
- ISBN-13
- 9781498706100
- Series
- Food As Medicine
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-11-25
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Author
- Maurice M. Iwu
Description
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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- 2020-11-10
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