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Mediterranean Wild Edible Plants: Weeds or “New Functional Crops”?

The Mediterranean basin is a biodiversity hotspot of wild edible species, and their therapeutic and culinary uses have long been documented. Owing to the growing demand for wild edible species, there are increasing concerns about the safety, standardization, quality, and availability of products der...

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Autores principales: Ceccanti, Costanza, Landi, Marco, Benvenuti, Stefano, Pardossi, Alberto, Guidi, Lucia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6225202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30205584
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules23092299
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author Ceccanti, Costanza
Landi, Marco
Benvenuti, Stefano
Pardossi, Alberto
Guidi, Lucia
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description The Mediterranean basin is a biodiversity hotspot of wild edible species, and their therapeutic and culinary uses have long been documented. Owing to the growing demand for wild edible species, there are increasing concerns about the safety, standardization, quality, and availability of products derived from these species collected in the wild. An efficient cultivation method for the species having promising nutraceutical values is highly desirable. In this backdrop, a hydroponic system could be considered as a reproducible and efficient agronomic practice to maximize yield, and also to selectively stimulate the biosynthesis of targeted metabolites. The aim of this report is to review the phytochemical and toxic compounds of some potentially interesting Mediterranean wild edible species. Herein, after a deep analysis of the literature, information on the main bioactive compounds, and some possibly toxic molecules, from fifteen wild edible species have been compiled. The traditional recipes prepared with these species are also listed. In addition, preliminary data about the performance of some selected species are also reported. In particular, germination tests performed on six selected species revealed that there are differences among the species, but not with crop species. “Domestication” of wild species seems a promising approach for exploiting these “new functional foods”.
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spelling pubmed-62252022018-11-13 Mediterranean Wild Edible Plants: Weeds or “New Functional Crops”? Ceccanti, Costanza Landi, Marco Benvenuti, Stefano Pardossi, Alberto Guidi, Lucia Molecules Review The Mediterranean basin is a biodiversity hotspot of wild edible species, and their therapeutic and culinary uses have long been documented. Owing to the growing demand for wild edible species, there are increasing concerns about the safety, standardization, quality, and availability of products derived from these species collected in the wild. An efficient cultivation method for the species having promising nutraceutical values is highly desirable. In this backdrop, a hydroponic system could be considered as a reproducible and efficient agronomic practice to maximize yield, and also to selectively stimulate the biosynthesis of targeted metabolites. The aim of this report is to review the phytochemical and toxic compounds of some potentially interesting Mediterranean wild edible species. Herein, after a deep analysis of the literature, information on the main bioactive compounds, and some possibly toxic molecules, from fifteen wild edible species have been compiled. The traditional recipes prepared with these species are also listed. In addition, preliminary data about the performance of some selected species are also reported. In particular, germination tests performed on six selected species revealed that there are differences among the species, but not with crop species. “Domestication” of wild species seems a promising approach for exploiting these “new functional foods”. MDPI 2018-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6225202/ /pubmed/30205584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules23092299 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Landi, Marco
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Pardossi, Alberto
Guidi, Lucia
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title_full Mediterranean Wild Edible Plants: Weeds or “New Functional Crops”?
title_fullStr Mediterranean Wild Edible Plants: Weeds or “New Functional Crops”?
title_full_unstemmed Mediterranean Wild Edible Plants: Weeds or “New Functional Crops”?
title_short Mediterranean Wild Edible Plants: Weeds or “New Functional Crops”?
title_sort mediterranean wild edible plants: weeds or “new functional crops”?
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6225202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30205584
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules23092299
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