Wild Plants Used as Herbs and Spices in Italy: An Ethnobotanical Review.

ABSTRACT: Wild edible plants are an essential component of people's diets in the Mediterranean basin. In Italy, ethnobotanical surveys have received increasing attention in the past two centuries, with some of these studies focusing on wild edible plants. In this regard, the literature in Italy lacks the coverage of some major issues focusing on plants used as herbs and spices. I searched national journals for articles on the use of wild food plants in Italy, published from 1963 to 2020. Aims of the present review were to document plant lore regarding wild herbs and spices in Italy, identify the wild plants most frequently used as spices, analyze the distribution of wild herbs and spices used at a national scale, and finally, to describe the most common phytochemical compounds present in wild plant

SUBMITTER: Motti R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8002413 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature