Potential health benefits of water yam (Dioscorea alata)
Abstract
Yam is the third most important root and tuber crop in the tropics but few species are grown as health
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* Corresponding authors
a
Department of Food Science and Technology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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b International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), c/o LW Lambourn and Co., Carolyn House, 26 Dingwall Road, Croydon, UK
Yam is the third most important root and tuber crop in the tropics but few species are grown as health
W. Faustina Dufie, I. Oduro, W. O. Ellis, R. Asiedu and B. Maziya-Dixon, Food Funct., 2013, 4, 1496 DOI: 10.1039/C3FO60064E
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