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Preliminary assessment of the nutritional composition of underexploited wild le...
Carvalho, Ana Fontenele Urano; Farias, Davi Felipe; Rocha-Bezerra, Lady Clarissa Brito da; Sousa, Nathanna Mateus de; Cavalheiro, Mariana GiovenardiThe seeds of 14 wild legume species from Brazil were analyzed to assess their potential as food. The seeds showed high levels of crude protein (10.9–50.0%), dietary fiber (0.8–52.3%) and energy (905–1804 kJ 100 g 1 ), and the amino acid composition (mg g 1 N) was comparable to that of soybeans, but with higher amounts of lysine (456–10,884) and histidine (199–918). The seeds showed lectin activity (20– 2560 and...
Prospecção nutricional e bioativa de sementes de dez espécies vegetais da caatinga
Fernandes, Geórgia SampaioFERNANDES, G. S. Prospecção nutricional e bioativa de sementes de dez espécies vegetais da caatinga. 2011. 331 f. Tese (Doutorado em Bioquímica) - Centro de Ciências, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, 2011.; The Caatinga Biome shows an heterogeneous vegetation with a taxonomic biodiversity of over 2,000 species of plants. Among these, approximately 220 belong to the Leguminosae family with 80 endemic sp...