Exotic Fruits Reference Guide

Sueli Rodrigues, Ebenezer de Oliveira Silva, Edy Sousa de Brito

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9780128031384
• eBook ISBN: 9780128031537
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Food Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Exotic Fruits Reference Guide is the ultimate, most complete reference work on exotic fruits from around the world. The book focuses on exotic fruit origin, botanical aspects, cultivation and harvest, physiology and biochemistry, chemical composition and nutritional value, including phenolics and antioxidant compounds. This guide is in four-color and contains images of the fruits, in addition to their regional names and geographical locations. Harvest and post-harvest conservation, as well as the potential for industrialization, are also presented as a way of stimulating interest in consumption and large scale production. - Covers exotic fruits found all over the world, described by a team of global contributors - Provides quick and easy access to botanical information, biochemistry, fruit processing and nutritional value - Features four-color images throughout for each fruit, along with its regional name and geographical location - Serves as a useful reference for researchers, industrial practitioners and students

Author Index

Note: Page numbers followed by “f” and “t” refer to figures and tables, respectively.

A

Abbasi, N.A., 286

Abdul Karim, F., 416t, 417t

Abe, L.T., 219, 240

Abeywickrama, W.S.S., 330

Abliz, A., 366

Abreu, F.P., 87

Abreu, P.A. de A., 81

Abu Bakar, M.F., 415, 416–417, 416t, 417, 417, 417t

Acevedo, P.I.C., 148

Achmad, S.A., 124

Acosta, M.A., 319

Adati, R.T., 94

Adebajo, A.C., 440

Adeniran, A.H., 58

Adeniran, H.A., 58

Adriano, E., 11

Agócs, A., 275

Agudelo, C., 157

Aguiar, J.C., 261

Aguiar, J.P., 102, 103

Aguiar, J.P.L., 155t

Aguiar, L.P., 49, 51

Aguiar, T.M., 219, 220t

Aguiar Filho, S.P., 305, 308

Ahmad, D., 357, 358, 358, 358

Ahmad, M.A., 373

Ahmad, S., 165

Aimi, M.N.N., 177

Airy Shaw, H.K., 15, 16

Ajifolokun, O.M., 58

Akachi, T., 99–102, 101t

Akagi, T., 115, 115

Akbulut, M., 288

Akowuah, G.A., 282t

Alam, M.K., 404, 406, 408, 409

Alberton, J.R., 251, 251–252

Albuquerque, C.L.C., 24, 26, 28, 28

Albuquerque, M.B., 307, 307

Albuquerque, U.P., 32, 141

Alcaraz, M.L., 37, 44

Al-daihan, S., 374

Alesiani, D., 365, 365–366

Alexandre, R.S., 69, 72, 73t, 73t

Alezandro, M.R., 240, 242

Algarra, A.M., 252

Ali, A., 345, 345

Alia-Tejacal, I., 142–143

Alice, C.B., 335, 337

Allegra, M., 193t

Al-Maiman,...

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgment
• Açaí—Euterpe oleracea
• Acerola—Malpighia emarginata
• Ambarella—Spondias cytherea
• Annatto/Urucum—Bixa orellana
• Araça—Psidium cattleyanum Sabine
• Avocado fruit—Persea americana
• Bacuri—Platonia insignis
• Breadfruit—Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg
• Buriti fruit—Mauritia flexuosa
• Cacao—Theobroma cacao
• Cagaita—Eugenia dysenterica
• Caju—Anacardium occidentale
• Cambuci—Campomanesia phaea (O. Berg.) Landrum
• Camu-camu—Myrciaria dubia (Kunth) McVaugh
• Canistel—Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni
• Caqui—Diospyros kaki
• Cempedak—Artocarpus champeden
• Chilean Guava—Myrtus ugni
• Ciruela/Mexican Plum—Spondias purpurea L.
• Cocona—Solanum sessiliflorum
• Cupuassu—Theobroma grandiflorum
• Custard apple—Annona squamosa L.
• Durian—Durio zibethinus
• Elderberry—Sambucus nigra L.
• Figo da india—Opuntia spp.
• Finger lime/The Australian Caviar—Citrus australasica
• Gooseberry—Ribes uva-crispa, sin. R. grossularia L
• Grumixama—Eugenia brasiliensis Lam
• Guarana—Paullinia cupana Kunth var. sorbilis (Mart.) Ducke
• Jabuticaba—Myrciaria spp.
• Jambo—Syzygium malaccense
• Jambolan—Syzygium jambolanum
• Jatoba—Hymenaea courbaril
• Jujuba—Ziziphus jujuba
• Kumquat—Fortunella japonica
• Langsat—Lansium domesticum
• Loquat/Nispero—Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.
• Maboque/Monkey Orange—Strychnos spinosa
• Macauba Palm—Acrocomia aculeata
• Mangaba—Hancornia speciosa
• Noni—Morinda citrifolia L.
• Pidada—Sonneratia caseolaris
• Pitanga—Eugenia uniflora L.
• Pitaya—Hylocereus undatus (Haw)
• Pitomba—Talisia esculenta
• Pomegranate/Roma—Punica granatum
• Quince—Cydonia oblonga
• Rambutãn—Nephelium lappaceum
• Safou—Dacryodes edulis
• Salak—Salacca zalacca
• Soursop—Annona muricata
• Sugar Apple—Annona squamosa Linn.
• Tamarindo—Tamarindus indica
• Tarap—Artocarpus odoratissimus
• The Tucumã of Amazonas—Astrocaryum aculeatum
• Umbu—Spondias tuberosa
• Uvaia—Eugenia pyriformis Cambess
• Wampee—Clausena lansium
• Wood Apple—Limonia acidissima
• Author Index
• Subject Index