Functional Dairy Foods Concepts and Applications

The book contains the information on importance and scope of lesser known tropical and sub-tropical fruits which are otherwise very nutritive and useful for mankind. These crops are exposure either wild or naturalized at homestead level and needs to be promoted for commercial cultivation particularly in the problematic soils, waste lands and non-areable lands The information on nutritional value anti-oxidant properties, taxonomic positions, biodiversity, plant regeneration techniques, agronomy, morphology and post harvest handling, processing and value addition on 23 such tropical and sub-tropical fruits with the help of pictures, tables, sketches have been presented in this book.