Handbook of Phytonutrients in Indigenous Fruits and Vegetables

This book contains chapters on 33 understudied indigenous fruits and vegetables from all around the world, including African nightshade, amaranth, baobab fruit, Indian gooseberry, red bush apple, and snake melon. Each chapter provides: an overview of plant botany; an understanding of the phytonutrient constituents and health-promoting properties of bioactive compounds or metabolites; information on the biological activity of the functional compounds that will improve productivity and increase utilization of indigenous fruits and vegetables to sustain food security; impacts of postharvest storage, processing, and traditional food preparation methods; and potential for new product development.