Chemical and nutritional characterization of raw and thermal-treated flours of Mesquite (Prosopis laevigata) pods and their residual brans

Species of the genus Prosopis were a major staple food in Aridoamerica before the arrival of Europeans. In the present work, chemical and nutritional properties of Prosopis laevigata pods were described. The composition in weight of pods of P. laevigata was 44% mesocarp, 35% endocarp, and 21% exocar...

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Main Authors: Luis Díaz-Batalla, Juan P. Hernández-Uribe, Alma D. Román-Gutiérrez, Raquel Cariño-Cortés, Javier Castro-Rosas, Alejandro Téllez-Jurado, Carlos A. Gómez-Aldapa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:CyTA - Journal of Food
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19476337.2017.1418433