Mineral element composition is given for the leaves of eight species of edible wild plants used by the first European farmers and still consumed at the present day in a primitive way. Amounts of moisture, ash, organic nitrogen, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, zinc, a
Nutrient composition of three Nigerian medicinal plants
โ Scribed by O.D. Ekpa
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 339 KB
- Volume
- 57
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0308-8146
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