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Chemical Characterization of Oils and Fats from Amazonian Fruits by ¹H NMR

Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2018
Native plants from the Brazilian Amazon Biome are rich in nutrients, oils and fats and, therefore, represent a very important regional food resource. There is a global interest in the nutritional potential of tropical fruits, the potential of Amazonian ...
Santos R. Carvalho Dos, E. Alves Chagas, A.A. Melo Filho, J.A. Takahashi, I. Montero Fernandez, G. Dos Santos F, P. Cardoso Chagas, A.C. Goncalves Reis De Melo   +7 more
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Neuroprotective potential of the Amazonian fruits Euterpe oleracea Mart. and Paullinia cupana Kunth [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2023
Acai (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) and guarana (Paullinia cupana Kunth) are native species from the Amazon Forest that in folk medicine are used to treat several diseases due to their anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.
Gabriel Nóbrega da Costa, Letícia Yoshitome Queiroz, Isaque Nilton dos Santos, Helena Iturvides Cimarosti   +3 more
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Amazonian palm tree fruits: From nutritional value to diversity of new food products

Heliyon
The rapid growth of the world population has increased the demand for new food sources, constituting a major challenge concerning the maximum use of existing food resources.
Isabelly Silva Amorim, Danyelly Silva Amorim, Helena Teixeira Godoy, Lilian Regina Barros Mariutti, Renan Campos Chisté, Rosinelson da Silva Pena, Stanislau Bogusz Junior, Josiane Freitas Chim   +7 more
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Combined Pulsed Vacuum Osmotic Dehydration and Convective Air-Drying Process of Jambolan Fruits

Foods, 2023
Jambolan (Syzygium cumini) is a native fruit from Asia that has adapted well to the tropical climate of the Amazonian region. However, due to its limited annual availability and high perishability, the jambolan fruit is still underexploited.
Adriano Lucena de Araújo, Rosinelson da Silva Pena   +1 more
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A review of the nutritional properties of different varieties and byproducts of peach palm (Bactris gasipaes) and their potential as functional foods

International Journal of Food Properties, 2022
Bactris gasipaes Kunth belongs to the Arecaceae family and is known in various parts of the world under various names. This fruit presents several hybridizations and wild species containing diverse percentages of nutritional and functional constituents ...
Stephanie Dias Soares, Orquídea Vasconcelos Dos Santos, Francisco Das Chagas Alves Do Nascimento, Rosinelson da Silva Pena   +3 more
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Edible Fruits from the Ecuadorian Amazon: Ethnobotany, Physicochemical Characteristics, and Bioactive Components

Plants, 2023
In the Ecuadorian Amazon region, there are various types of edible fruits that have distinct qualities and benefits. Understanding the uses, properties, and functions of these fruits is important for researching products that are only available in local ...
Maritza Sánchez-Capa, Mireia Corell González, Carlos Mestanza-Ramón   +2 more
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Ethnoecology of miriti (Mauritia flexuosa, L.f.) fruit extraction in the Brazilian Amazon: knowledge and practices of riverine peoples contribute to the biodiversity conservation

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2021
Background This article presents, from an ethnoecological perspective, the worldviews, traditional knowledge, and cultural practices of Amazonian riverine people involved in the extraction of miriti fruits (Mauritia flexuosa L.f.), in a context of ...
Flávio Bezerra Barros, Fagner Freires de Sousa, Josiele Pantoja de Andrade, Fabrício Menezes Ramos, Camila Vieira-da-Silva   +4 more
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Seed dispersal by macaws shapes the landscape of an Amazonian ecosystem

Scientific Reports, 2017
Seed dispersal is one of the most studied plant–animal mutualisms. It has been proposed that the dispersal of many large-seeded plants from Neotropical forests was primarily conducted by extinct megafauna, and currently by livestock.
Adrián Baños-Villalba, Guillermo Blanco, José A. Díaz-Luque, Francisco V. Dénes, Fernando Hiraldo, José L. Tella   +5 more
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Redescription of †Eobrasilia coutoi (Metatheria: Polydolopimorphia), a unique sclerocarpophagous metatherian from the Palaeogene of South America: Systematic affinities, and paleoecological and evolutionary implications

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The ‘Palaeogene strata’ of the Itaboraí Basin (upper Paleocene‐lower Eocene), Southeastern Brazil, has preserved 29 genera and almost 50 species of metatherians (about 65% of its mammalian diversity). Among them, Eobrasilia coutoi Simpson, 1947 is the most enigmatic due to its quite fragmentary nature.
Leonardo M. Carneiro, Hugo Bampi, Ana C. Bernardes‐Dias, Lidiane Asevedo, João P. P. Araújo, Matheus R. Arêas, Alessandra S. Machado, Ricardo T. Lopes, Rafael C. Silva, Marina B. Soares, Gustavo R. Oliveira   +10 more
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Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +1 more
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