Publisher's Synopsis
Fruits, vegetables, nuts and spices have an important place in human diet and life. Therefore, one object of this book is to organize the scattered information and to deal with the recent development of nutritional value and health benefits from fruits, vegetables, nuts and spices to the human being. This will help to increase the per capita consumption of fruits, vegetables, nuts and spices in their daily diet. This book addresses factors that are involved in maintaining the quality of fruits and vegetables.
This book incorporates information on nutritional values and their benefits to the consumers. In this book contain total 164 fruits, vegetables, nuts and spices crops, 4 chapters, general information, medicinal use, health benefits, culinary uses and nutritional values are given. This book has been mainly designed to serve as a text, general information to the consumers and reference book for the students in the field of Food Science and Technology, post-harvest technology, horticulture, nutrition advisors and mostly for professionals in food industries.
