This book chapter describes pomegranates' (1) basic industrial processing: quality guidelines for procurement of fruits for processing, reception and cleaning, sorting, aril extraction, minimal processing, pretreatments, packaging and storability, juice extraction, thermal and non-thermal juice...

This chapter presents the trends in oil quality improvement and bio-analytical techniques towards value-added end products in rape, Indian mustard and Brassica campestris.

This chapter describes the taxonomy, ecology and history as a crop, morphology, yield and its components, disease resistance, breeding objectives and methods, approaches to enhance oil production, cultivation (including seed rate, spacing, sowing time, climate, soil and fertilizer requirements,...

This chapter describes the antimicrobial properties of the following wild edible plants (i.e. their extracts and seed oils, among other products) from Nigeria: Alchornea cordifolia, Entada africana, Terminalia avicennioides, Chromolaena odorata, Vernonia species, Anchomanes difformis, Acalypha...

This chapter covers the morphology, uses, chemical composition (general composition of seed, fruit and extract, as well as volatile compounds in the essential oil, oleoresins, and non-volatile compounds in the fixed oil), medicinal properties (including antioxidant, antineopalstic, antimicrobial,...

This chapter covers the morphology, uses, chemical composition (general composition, volatile compounds in seed oil and husk oil, and pigments) and medicinal properties (antiinflammatory, hepatoprotective and antiulcer) of large cardamom (Amomum subulatum).

This introductory chapter to this book on seed carbohydrates of grain legumes provides background information on the following subjects: the grain legumes; grain legume production; grain legume composition; and grain legume carbohydrates. A list is provided on the common grain legumes grown in the...

Nearly all above-ground parts of Cannabis can be utilized: stalks provide fibre (from phloem cells) and hurds (from xylem cells), achenes (seeds) provide edible seeds and polychotomous seed oil, female flowers provide marijuana (with seeds) and sinsemilla (without seeds), and resin glands extracted ...