Exotic Fruits Reference Guide

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-12-803138-4
Verlag: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc

Buch, Englisch, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 225 mm x 286 mm, Gewicht: 1609 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodrigues, Sueli

Silva, Ebenezer de Oliveira

de Brito, Edy Sousa

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Lebensmitteltechnologie und Getränketechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Rodrigues, Sueli
Sueli Rodrigues is a Professor at the Department of Food Science and Technology, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil. She graduated in Chemical Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1998), completing a Master's in Chemical Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas in 2000 and a PhD inChemical Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2003).

Silva, Ebenezer de Oliveira
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).

de Brito, Edy Sousa
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.