Mediterranean Wild Edible Plants

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Ethnobotany of Wild Edible Plants

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. A Historical Perspective of Wild Plant Foods in the Mediterranean Area

      • María Esperanza Torija-Isasa, María Cruz Matallana-González

      Pages 3-13

   3. The Mediterranean Landscape and Wild Edible Plants

      • Daniel Sánchez-Mata, Ramón Morales

      Pages 15-31

   4. Nutritional Ethnobotany in Europe: From Emergency Foods to Healthy Folk Cuisines and Contemporary Foraging Trends

      • Łukasz Łuczaj, Andrea Pieroni

      Pages 33-56

   5. Ethnobotanical Analysis of Wild Fruits and Vegetables Traditionally Consumed in Spain

      • Javier Tardío, Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana

      Pages 57-79

   6. Natural Production and Cultivation of Mediterranean Wild Edibles

      • María Molina, Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Javier Tardío

      Pages 81-107

3. Nutrients and Bioactive Compounds

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. The Contribution of Wild Plants to Dietary Intakes of Micronutrients (I): Vitamins

      • María de Cortes Sánchez-Mata, María Cruz Matallana-González, Patricia Morales

      Pages 111-139

   3. The Contribution of Wild Plants to Dietary Intakes of Micronutrients (II): Mineral Elements

      • Patricia García-Herrera, María de Cortes Sánchez-Mata

      Pages 141-171

   4. Fatty Acid Profiles of Mediterranean Wild Edible Plants

      • José Luis Guil-Guerrero, María Esperanza Torija-Isasa

      Pages 173-186

   5. Wild Edible Plants as Sources of Carotenoids, Fibre, Phenolics and Other Non-Nutrient Bioactive Compounds

      • Montaña Cámara, Virginia Fernández-Ruiz, Brígida María Ruiz-Rodríguez

      Pages 187-205

4. Biological Activities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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   2. Antioxidant Potential of Wild Plant Foods

      • Lillian Barros, Patricia Morales, Ana Maria Carvalho, Isabel C. F. R. Ferreira

      Pages 209-232

   3. Antimicrobial Potential of Wild Edible Herbaceous Species

      • Donato Di Venere, Maria Antonia Gatto, Antonio Ippolito, Vito V. Bianco

      Pages 233-252

   4. Recent Advances in Research on Wild Food Plants and Their Biological–Pharmacological Activity

      • Michael Heinrich, Sarah Kerrouche, Kawaldeep Singh Bharij

      Pages 253-269

5. Descriptive Dossier: Botany, Uses and Food Composition Tables

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271

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   2. Ethnobotanical and Food Composition Monographs of Selected Mediterranean Wild Edible Plants

      • Javier Tardío, María de Cortes Sánchez-Mata, Ramón Morales, María Molina, Patricia García-Herrera, Patricia Morales et al.

      Pages 273-470

6. Back Matter

   Pages 471-478

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This book is the result of collaboration between botanists and food chemists, with the purpose of improving the knowledge of the main wild species of traditional use as foods in the Mediterranean area, focus on ethnobotanical aspects, natural production, uses and nutritional aspects. One of the novelties of the book would be the publication of complete food composition tables of more than 40 species, which are not usually included in nutrient databases of foods. Many of the data included comes from the chemical analysis of representative samples of these species and other are compiled from the scientific literature. Since this topic had not been fully studied, this book provides an interesting tool to be used with the purpose of the revalorization of wild food species, preservation of their traditional uses, and also as alternatives to improve the diversity of modern Mediterranean diets.​

• Mediterranean
• Wild edible plants
• ethnobotany
• nutrient database
• pharmacology

“Chapters on the contribution of wild plants to dietary intakes do a nice job of connecting the kinds of nutritional data presented in the monographs to functions of those nutrients in the human body. Excellent use is made of photographs, in particular as they are gathered together to illustrate different aspects of one theme. … a vast amount of pertinent information is crammed into the book.” (Susanne Masters, Economic Botany, Vol. 70 (4), December, 2016)

• Departamento de Nutrición y Bromatología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  María de Cortes Sánchez-Mata

• Dept. de Investigación Agroalimentaria, IMIDRA, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

  Javier Tardío

Dr. María de Cortes Sánchez-Mata, PhD in Pharmacy, is currently a professor in Food Science at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. She has performed a continuous research on the analysis of nutrients, antinutrients and bioactive compounds in plant foods, with the focus on human health promotion.

Dr. Javier Tardío, PhD in Agricultural Engineering, is currently a researcher at IMIDRA (Madrid Institute for Rural Development, Agriculture and Food Research), in Madrid, Spain. He has maintained an active research on different aspects of Ethnobotany, especially on Mediterranean wild edible plants.

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