Nutritional and Functional Properties of Wild Food-Medicine Plants From the Coastal Region of South China.

ABSTRACT: Food-medicine plants play an important role in providing nutrition and treating chronic diseases, especially in many minority communities and developing regions. The coastal region of South China has abundant resources of medicinal plants. A long history of cross-cultural medicinal practices among different minority groups has facilitated the development of a remarkable dietary culture by using food-medicine plants. However, integrative ethnobotanical research on both nutritional and functional properties of the food-medicine plants in this region is still limited. In this study, 27 commonly used wild food-medicine plants were recorded and analyzed from the coastal region of South China. Most of them are good sources for calcium (47.83-1099.89 mg/100 g fresh weight), dietary fiber (3.00-31

SUBMITTER: Xu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7163236 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature