TY - BOOK AU - Ferreira,Isabel C.F.R. AU - Gómez,Patricia Morales AU - Barros,Lillian TI - Wild plants, mushrooms and nuts: functional food properties and applications SN - 9781118944653 AV - QP144.F85 U1 - 581.6/32 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Chichester, UK, Hoboken, NJ PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - Functional foods KW - Mushrooms KW - Nuts KW - Wild plants, Edible KW - SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : the increasing demand for functional foods -- The numbers behind mushrooms biodiversity -- The nutritional benefits of mushrooms -- The wide range of bioactive properties of mushrooms -- The use of mushrooms in the development of functional foods, drugs or nutraceuticals -- The consumption of wild edible plants -- Wild greens as source of nutritive and bioactive compounds over the world -- Nutrients and bioactive compounds in wild fruits through different continents -- Wild plant-based functional foods, drugs or nutraceuticals -- Nuts : agricultural and economic importance worldwide -- Recent advances in the biological properties of nuts -- The interest of nuts as sources of nutrients -- The contribution of chestnuts to the design and development of functional foods -- Emerging functional foods derived from almonds UR - https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118944653 ER -