Edible mushrooms : chemical composition and nutritional value

✍ Scribed by Kalač, Pavel

• Publisher: Elsevier, Academic Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Edible Mushrooms provides an advanced overview of the chemical composition and nutritional properties of nearly all species of culinary mushrooms. This unique compendium gathers all current literature, which has beendispersed as fragmentary information until now.

The book is broken into five parts covering chemical and nutrient composition, taste and flavor components as well as health stimulating and potentially detrimental effects. Appendices provide helpful quick references on abbreviations, common names of mushrooms, fatty acid profiles, and an index of mushroom species. Mycologists, nutrition researchers, mushroom cultivators and distributors, and food and neutraceutical processors will benefit from this sweeping overview of edible mushrooms.

• Thoroughly explores the chemical composition and nutritional value of both cultivated and wild growing mushroom species.
• Gathers all the information available on mushroom compounds in order providing an easy comparison of nutritional properties and bioactive compounds.
• Includes hundreds of current references allowing you to further your exploration of the topic by reviewing the detailed data in the primary literature.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front-matter,Copyright,Dedication,Preface,Acknowledgments,Biography,List of Figures,List of TablesEntitled to full textChapter 1 - Introduction, Pages 1-6
Chapter 2 - Proximate Composition and Nutrients, Pages 7-69
Chapter 3 - Minor Constituents, Pages 71-136
Chapter 4 - Health-Stimulating Compounds and Effects, Pages 137-153
Chapter 5 - Detrimental Compounds and Effects, Pages 155-180
Chapter 6 - Conclusions, Pages 181-186
Appendix I - List of Abbreviations, Page 187
Appendix II - Commonly Used Japanese Names of Mushrooms, Page 189
Appendix III - Characteristics of the Main Fatty Acids Occurring in Mushroom Lipids, Page 191
Color Plate Section, Pages PS1-PS8
Index of Mushroom Species, Pages 193-197
Subject Index, Pages 199-207