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Biodiverse food plants in the semiarid region of Brazil have unknown potential: A systematic review.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 74 citations in OpenAlex.
- Assessment of Biodiversity in Food Consumption Studies: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Pooled it
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- Expanding the limits of sex: a systematic review concerning food and nutrition in transgender populations.Public health nutrition · 2021Pooled it
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- Similarities in Brazilian dietary diversity: a literature review of ethnobotanical studies on regional, vegetation, and cultural contexts.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2026Review
- Prioritizing neglected food species in nutritional studies using expert-knowledge and explainable AI.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The traditional knowledge about the biodiversity of edible Brazilian fruits and their pollinators: an integrative review.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2025Review
- Proximate composition of wild meats present in traditional food systems of the Brazilian Amazon.PloS one · 2025Article
- Conservation of wild food plants from wood uses: evidence supporting the protection hypothesis in Northeastern Brazil.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2024Article
- Large-scale production of non-conventional edible plants for biodiverse school meals.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Bioactive Compounds Intake of the Brazilian Population According to Geographic Region.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Socioeconomic factors influencing knowledge and consumption of food plants by a human group in a mountainous environment in the semiarid region of Bahia, Northeast Brazil.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2022Article
- The Renaissance of Wild Food Plants: Insights from Tuscany (Italy).Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Edible native plants of the Gulf of Mexico Province.Biodiversity data journal · 2022Article
- Obesity and the increased risk for COVID-19: mechanisms and nutritional management.Nutrition research reviews · 2021Review
- Local knowledge as a tool for prospecting wild food plants: experiences in northeastern Brazil.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- A proline derivative-enriched methanol fraction from Sideroxylon obtusifolium leaves (MFSOL) stimulates human keratinocyte cells and exerts a healing effect in a burn wound model.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2021Article
- Born to Eat Wild: An Integrated Conservation Approach to Secure Wild Food Plants for Food Security and Nutrition.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
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Abstract
Food biodiversity presents one of the most significant opportunities to enhance food and nutrition security today. The lack of data on many plants, however, limits our understanding of their potential and the possibility of building a research agenda focused on them. Our objective with this systematic review was to identify biodiverse food plants occurring in the Caatinga biome, Brazil, strategic for the promotion of food and nutrition security. We selected studies from the following databases: Web of Science, Medline/PubMed (via the National Library of Medicine), Scopus and Embrapa Agricultural Research Databases (BDPA). Eligible were original articles, published since 2008, studying food plants occurring in the Caatinga. We assessed the methodological quality of the studies we selected. We reviewed a total of fifteen studies in which 65 plants that met our inclusion criteria were mentioned. Of this amount, 17 species, including varieties, subspecies, and different parts of plants, had data on chemical composition, in addition to being mentioned as food consumed by rural communities in observational ethnobotanical studies. From the energy and protein data associated with these plants, we produced a ranking of strategic species. The plants with values higher than the average of the set were: Dioclea grandiflora Mart. ex Benth (mucunã), Hymenaea courbaril L. (jatobá), Syagrus cearensis Noblick (coco-catolé), Libidibia ferrea (Mart. ex Tul.) L.P.Queiroz (jucá), Sideroxylon obtusifolium (Roem. & Schult.) T.D.Penn. (quixabeira). We suggest that the scientific community concentrates research efforts on tree legumes, due to their resilience and physiological, nutritional, and culinary qualities.
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