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Food Plants of the World

Identification, Culinary Uses and Nutritional Value

Av 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.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-07-05
  • Mått: 172 x 244 x 35 mm
  • Vikt: 1 459 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 520
  • Förlag: CABI Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781789241303
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Ben-Erik van Wyk is a plant taxonomist with broad research horizons that include ethnobotany and economic botany. He is a Professor of Botany based at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He currently holds a National Research Chair in Indigenous Plant Use. His research interests include plant classification, useful plants, medicinal plants and ethnobotany. He has authored and co-authored more than 390 scientific papers, 23 books, 30 taxonomic revisions, and more than 100 new plant species and other taxa. He is best known for his series of international full-colour reference books on useful plants, including global reviews of Medicinal Plants, Food Plants, Herbs and Spices, Mind-altering and Poisonous Plants, Phytomedicines, Cut Flowers and Garden Succulents.

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