Exotic Fruits Reference Guide
- 1st Edition - January 5, 2018
- Editors: Sueli Rodrigues, Ebenezer de Oliveira Silva, Edy Sousa de Brito
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 3 1 3 8 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 3 1 5 3 - 7
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,… Read more
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Request a sales quoteExotic 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.
- 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
R&D personnel, professionals that work with fruit processing and fruit products development
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
- No. of pages: 488
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 5, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128031384
- eBook ISBN: 9780128031537
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Sueli Rodrigues
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Ebenezer de Oliveira Silva
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