Exploration of the nutritional profile of Trichocereus terscheckii (Parmentier) Britton & Rose stems

Columnar cacti Trichocereus terscheckii is an important source of food and water for insects, birds and wild cattle in dry areas of North West Argentina. Their fruits have been suggested as a plausible source of food, but are not directly included in the human diet yet. Stem chemistry has long been...

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Autores principales:	Julián, P., Soto, I.M.
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Materias:	Alkaloids Cardon Echinopsis Fatty acids Nutrition
Acceso en línea:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_1938663X_v15_n_p1_Julian
Aporte de:	Biblioteca Digital - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA) de Universidad de Buenos Aires

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spelling	todo:paper_1938663X_v15_n_p1_Julian2023-10-03T16:36:44Z Exploration of the nutritional profile of Trichocereus terscheckii (Parmentier) Britton & Rose stems Julián, P. Soto, I.M. Alkaloids Cardon Echinopsis Fatty acids Nutrition Columnar cacti Trichocereus terscheckii is an important source of food and water for insects, birds and wild cattle in dry areas of North West Argentina. Their fruits have been suggested as a plausible source of food, but are not directly included in the human diet yet. Stem chemistry has long been of interest because of its hallucinogenic properties, but little is known about the nutritional value. In this work, basic nutritional composition of a mature stem was analyzed establishing moisture, total fat, ash, fiber, protein, lipidic and sugar profile. The main constituents fatty acid found in T. terscheckii were linolenic, linoleic, palmitic and oleic acids, but also a rare isomer of oleic acid was relatively abundant. This pattern did not agree with the profiles found in other species of columnar cacti. Current exploration of nutritional profiles of T. terscheckii stem provides novel information that contributes to a better understanding of this species whose slow development rate, high water storage capacity and hallucinogenic properties are features that make it especially vulnerable to an increased rate of extraction, habitat fragmentation and extensive cattle ranching. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_1938663X_v15_n_p1_Julian
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topic	Alkaloids Cardon Echinopsis Fatty acids Nutrition
spellingShingle	Alkaloids Cardon Echinopsis Fatty acids Nutrition Julián, P. Soto, I.M. Exploration of the nutritional profile of Trichocereus terscheckii (Parmentier) Britton & Rose stems
topic_facet	Alkaloids Cardon Echinopsis Fatty acids Nutrition
description	Columnar cacti Trichocereus terscheckii is an important source of food and water for insects, birds and wild cattle in dry areas of North West Argentina. Their fruits have been suggested as a plausible source of food, but are not directly included in the human diet yet. Stem chemistry has long been of interest because of its hallucinogenic properties, but little is known about the nutritional value. In this work, basic nutritional composition of a mature stem was analyzed establishing moisture, total fat, ash, fiber, protein, lipidic and sugar profile. The main constituents fatty acid found in T. terscheckii were linolenic, linoleic, palmitic and oleic acids, but also a rare isomer of oleic acid was relatively abundant. This pattern did not agree with the profiles found in other species of columnar cacti. Current exploration of nutritional profiles of T. terscheckii stem provides novel information that contributes to a better understanding of this species whose slow development rate, high water storage capacity and hallucinogenic properties are features that make it especially vulnerable to an increased rate of extraction, habitat fragmentation and extensive cattle ranching.
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title	Exploration of the nutritional profile of Trichocereus terscheckii (Parmentier) Britton & Rose stems
title_short	Exploration of the nutritional profile of Trichocereus terscheckii (Parmentier) Britton & Rose stems
title_full	Exploration of the nutritional profile of Trichocereus terscheckii (Parmentier) Britton & Rose stems
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Exploration of the nutritional profile of Trichocereus terscheckii (Parmentier) Britton & Rose stems

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