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Veritas & Research, 2021 En los últimos años, la comercialización de frutas tropicales como el aguacate, mango, papaya y piña, presentan un auge en sus exportaciones a nivel mundial, provocando que los productores de frutas, busquen fomentar y potencializar este sector con el ...
Luis Asencio-Cristóbal +3 more
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Food Chemistry AdvancesBy-products from fruits and vegetables provide an alternative source of dietary fiber with unique properties. Chayote (Sechium edule (Jacq.) Sw.) is a herbaceous plant considered a weed in some regions, wasting its potential use in the formulation of ...
Clara María Mejía Doria +2 more
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Revista Colombiana de Investigaciones Agroindustriales, 2022 La capacidad antioxidante se ha convertido en una característica ampliamente demandada en los alimentos contemporáneos. El conocimiento de las moléculas que imparten esta actividad, así como los alimentos donde pueden encontrarse de manera natural ...
Alfredo Vázquez-Ovando +3 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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eFood, Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2026.Wild edible plants (WEP) in Angola: number of species recorded by family and their distribution ranges; four of the most used WEP: Tamarindus indica (Fabaceae), Carissa spinarum (Apocynaceae), Adansonia digitata (Malvaceae), and Vitex doniana (Lamiaceae).
Claudete Bastos +4 more
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The ecology of attraction: Fruit traits and frugivore diversity in neotropical Piper
Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 611-623, March 2026.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Fruit traits can benefit plant reproduction by enhancing seed dispersal by mutualistic frugivores (e.g. seed dispersal syndromes), but identifying the role of specific fruit traits in mediating frugivory is challenging because these traits can serve multiple functions ...
Sharlene E. Santana +3 more
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Biotecnología en el Sector Agropecuario y Agroindustrial, 2020 Dentro de las frutas tropicales, la guayaba (Psidium guajava L.) es una de las más consumidas gracias a sus excelentes propiedades organolépticas y funcionales, rica en compuestos bioactivos.
José Igor Hleap Zapata +3 more
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Frutas tropicales: fuente de compuestos bioactivos naturales en la industria de alimentos
Ingenium Revista de la facultad de ingeniería, 2016 <p>En los últimos años, ha habido una tendencia global hacia el consumo de alimentos que proporcionen efectos beneficiosos para la salud. Las principales investigaciones demuestran que el uso de compuestos bioactivos derivados de plantas como fuente de ingredientes funcionales en los productos alimenticios puede disminuir el riesgo de ...
German Darío Cárdenas Baquero +2 more
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Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.We simultaneously evaluated how the fruiting neighborhood, defined as the number of fruiting palms in a 35 m radius, and relevant traits at the level of individual plants (e.g., height, crop size) and fruits (e.g., fruit and seed size, water, and sucrose content) influenced frugivore visitation and the number of fruits removed per visit in a common ...
Callie Rose Chenevert +3 more
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Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.We compared the abundance and characteristics of trees in replicated plots across a rural to urban gradient in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Trees in urban parks, fencerows, and national parks provide complementary benefits and have distinct compositions.
Jennifer S. Powers +12 more
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