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dc.contributor.authorCock, Ian Edwin
dc.contributor.editorSheryl Backhouse
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-03T06:04:55Z
dc.date.available2019-04-03T06:04:55Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.modified2013-05-20T05:14:41Z
dc.identifier.issnUNAVAILABLE
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/50662
dc.description.abstractThe term “super-food” is an increasingly, and often over used name for foods with high nutritional and phytochemical content. Such foods are thought to provide exceptional health benefits. One often cited super-food is blueberries with their high antioxidant content, consisting of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), anthrocyanins, flavonoids etc. Recent Australian studies have shown several Australian native fruits to have far greater antioxidant content than blueberries (Netzel et al, 2007). Davidsons plum, Burdekin plum, Illawarra plum, finger limes, Tasmanian pepper, muntries, Molucca raspberry, riberry, bush cherry and Cedar Bay cherry all had antioxidant contents far in excess of blueberries. However, the highest antioxidant content of all was found in Terminalia ferdinandiana (Kakadu plum), which had vitamin C contents approximately 900 times higher than blueberries. Vitamin C contents for Kakadu plum have been estimated to be as high as 6% of wet weight (compared to 0.007% of the wet weight of oranges, which are considered an excellent source of vitamin C) (Woods, 1995). As well as vitamin C, Kakadu plum also contains many other chemical constituents which contribute to their high antioxidant activity (Netzel et al, 2007). Whilst many of these constituents are yet to be identified, Kakadu plum fruit have been shown to contain flavonoids, phenolics and are a good source of gallic and ellagic acids. Furthermore, Kakadu plum is a good source of the minerals magnesium, zinc, calcium, potassium, sodium, iron, phosphorous, manganese, copper and molybdenum (Konczak et al, 2010).
dc.description.peerreviewedNo
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.publisherQueensland Bushfood Association
dc.publisher.placeQld Australia
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.ausbushfoods.com/
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom3
dc.relation.ispartofpageto4
dc.relation.ispartofeditionWinter
dc.relation.ispartofjournalBushfoods Bulletin
dc.relation.ispartofvolumeWinter
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBiological Sciences not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode069999
dc.titleKakadu Plum – An Emerging Super-food
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC2 - Articles (Other)
dc.type.codec2
gro.facultyFaculty of Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
gro.date.issued2012
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorCock, Ian E.


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