Exotic Fruits Reference Guide
1st Edition
Description
Exotic Fruits Reference Guide is the ultimate, most complete reference work on exotic fruits from around the world. The book focuses on exotic fruit origin, botanical aspects, cultivation and harvest, physiology and biochemistry, chemical composition and nutritional value, including phenolics and antioxidant compounds. This guide is in four-color and contains images of the fruits, in addition to their regional names and geographical locations. Harvest and post-harvest conservation, as well as the potential for industrialization, are also presented as a way of stimulating interest in consumption and large scale production.
Key Features
- Covers exotic fruits found all over the world, described by a team of global contributors
- Provides quick and easy access to botanical information, biochemistry, fruit processing and nutritional value
- Features four-color images throughout for each fruit, along with its regional name and geographical location
- Serves as a useful reference for researchers, industrial practitioners and students
Readership
R&D personnel, professionals that work with fruit processing and fruit products development
Table of Contents
Abacate - Persa americana
Acai - Euterpe oleracea
Acerola - Malpighia emarginata
Aguaje fruit - Mauritia flexuosa
Ambarella - Spondias cytherea
Annato/Urucum - Bixa orellan
Araca - Psidium cattleyanum Sabine
Bacuri - Platonia insignis
Breadfruit - Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg
Cacao - Theobroma cacao
Cagaita - Eugenia dysenterica
Caju - Anacardium occidentales
Cambuci - Campomanesia phaea
Camu-camu - Myrciaria dubia H. B. K. (McVough)
Canistel
Caqui - Diospyros kaki
Cempedak - Artocarpus champeden
imoya /Custard apple - Annona cherimola
Cocona - Solanum sessiliflorum
Cupuacu - Theobroma Grandiflorum
Durian - Durio zibethinus
* And much more
Details
- No. of pages:
- 488
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Academic Press 2018
- Published:
- 6th January 2018
- Imprint:
- Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN:
- 9780128031384
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780128031537
About the Editor
Sueli Rodrigues
Graduate at Chemical Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1998), Master's at Chemical Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2000) and PhD. at Chemical Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2003).
Affiliations and Expertise
Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology, Universidade Federal do Ceará
Ebenezer Silva
Graduate at Agronomy (Agronomic Engineering) from Federal University of Viçosa (1991), Master's at Crop Science from Federal University of Viçosa (1994), Ph.D. at Plant Physiology from Federal University of Viçosa (2000) and Senior Internship at University of Massachusetts – Amherst (2010).
Affiliations and Expertise
Researcher, Postharvest Physiology and Technology of fruits and vegetables, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária,(Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation)
Edy de Brito
Graduate at Industrial Chemistry by Universidade Federal de Sergipe (1989), master's at Ciência e Tecnologia de Alimentos by Universidade Federal da Paraíba (1993) , Ph.D. at Tecnologia de Alimentos by Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2000) and Postdoctorate by the United States Department of Agriculture (2006) . Currently is of Embrapa’s Tropical Agroindustry.
Affiliations and Expertise
Researcher, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria, (Brazilian Enterprise for Agricultural Research)
