Top 100 food plants / Ernest Small.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Small, Ernest, 1940-
Corporate Author: National Research Council Canada
Language:English
Published: Ottawa : NRC Research Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Food crops.
Plants, Edible > Identification.
Plants, Edible > Health aspects.
Vegetables in human nutrition.
Vegetarian cooking.
Genre:
Identification.
Physical Description:xvii, 636 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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Format: Book
Contents:
  • Common name guide to food plants discussed in detail
  • Scientific name guide to food plants discussed in detail Abstract/Reśume ́-- Introduction: How the choice of the leading 100 food plants was made
  • Format presentation
  • Human nutrition in relation to plant foods: What people eat
  • Relative importance of animal foods in the human diet
  • Vegetarianism
  • The evolution of the human diet with respect to plant foods
  • Nutritional success by combining cereals and pulses
  • The principal food plants
  • Natural toxins in food plants and their potential for harm
  • Plant foods as medicine
  • Culinary purposes: why most food is not consumed raw
  • Food preferences
  • Food allergies
  • Ethnic/racial/geographical genetically determined nutritional susceptibilities
  • Achieving nutritional balance in the modern diet
  • Carbohydrates
  • Fats
  • Proteins
  • Vitamins
  • Minerals
  • Fiber
  • Antioxidants
  • Eating patterns
  • The addictive nature of food and the resulting fat pandemic
  • Modern nutritional crimes, Culinology, and the mediocrity of mass-marketed prepared foods
  • Slow food
  • The future of food plants
  • Detailed information on food plants.