Health-promoting properties of fruit and vegetables /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2011.
• Subjects: Fruit in human nutrition.; Vegetables in human nutrition.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Crop Produce.; Food Composition and Quality.; Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products.; Composition and Quality of Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products.; Physiology of Human Nutrition.; Techniques and Methodology.; Man.; Chemical composition.; Extraction.; Fruits.; Health.; Medicinal properties.; Methodology.; Plant composition.; Vegetables.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 417 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book has 19 chapters focusing on the beneficial effects of the consumption of fruits and vegetables on human health. Some of the most common fruits and vegetables, their biologically active constituents and their medicinal properties are discussed. Some methodologies used for the extraction, isolation, characterization and quantification of these biologically active compounds and evaluation of their in vitro and in vivo activities are also presented.