Food Plants of the World: Identification, Culinary Uses and Nutritional Value
Food Plants of the World is a comprehensive overview of the commercially important plants that provide us with food, beverages, spices and flavours. It includes descriptions of around 380 food and flavour plants and their close relatives. For each plant, the following information is given: plant description, origin & history, cultivation & harvesting, culinary uses & properties, and nutritional value. This revised edition is thoroughly updated throughout, and includes around 30 additional species, as well as an introduction to functional foods.This is an indispensable reference guide for anyone interested in the botanical origin of food ingredients and flavours.
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Food Plants of the World: Identification, Culinary Uses and Nutritional Value
Food Plants of the World is a comprehensive overview of the commercially important plants that provide us with food, beverages, spices and flavours. It includes descriptions of around 380 food and flavour plants and their close relatives. For each plant, the following information is given: plant description, origin & history, cultivation & harvesting, culinary uses & properties, and nutritional value. This revised edition is thoroughly updated throughout, and includes around 30 additional species, as well as an introduction to functional foods.This is an indispensable reference guide for anyone interested in the botanical origin of food ingredients and flavours.
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Food Plants of the World: Identification, Culinary Uses and Nutritional Value

Food Plants of the World: Identification, Culinary Uses and Nutritional Value

by Ben-Erik van Wyk
Food Plants of the World: Identification, Culinary Uses and Nutritional Value

Food Plants of the World: Identification, Culinary Uses and Nutritional Value

by Ben-Erik van Wyk

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Food Plants of the World is a comprehensive overview of the commercially important plants that provide us with food, beverages, spices and flavours. It includes descriptions of around 380 food and flavour plants and their close relatives. For each plant, the following information is given: plant description, origin & history, cultivation & harvesting, culinary uses & properties, and nutritional value. This revised edition is thoroughly updated throughout, and includes around 30 additional species, as well as an introduction to functional foods.This is an indispensable reference guide for anyone interested in the botanical origin of food ingredients and flavours.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789241303
Publisher: CABI
Publication date: 08/19/2019
Edition description: Revised Edition
Pages: 512
Product dimensions: 6.80(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Ben-Erik van Wyk is a Professor of Botany and holds the DST-NRF National Research Chair in Indigenous Plant Use at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He has a research interest in systematic botany and plant utilization.

Table of Contents

1: Preface
2: Intro
3: Regions of origin
4: Cereals
5: Pulses (legumes)
6: Nuts and seeds
7: Fruits
8: Vegetables
9: Culinary herbs
10: Sugars, gums, gels and starches
11: Beverages
12: Spices and flavours
13: The plants in alphabetical order
14: Nutrients, diets and health
15: Quick guide to food plants
16: Glossary
17: Further reading
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