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| Provedor de dados: |
Ciência e Agrotecnologia
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
The table egg: a review
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| Autores: |
Bertechini,Antonio Gilberto
Mazzuco,Helenice
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| Data: |
2013-04-01
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| Ano: |
2013
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| Palavras-chave: |
Enrichment eggs
Diet
Egg quality
Human health
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| Resumo: |
This present review intends to provide information and update the reader about diverse aspects of quality and consumption of eggs, the variation among consumer preference worldwide emphasizing the upper status this food represents as source of essential nutrients for human health. This review mainly focus on topics regarding production and quality of table eggs, emphasizing some aspects of the egg market, trend in egg intake and consumers perceptions regarding egg content and nutritious values. Additionally, results from specific studies that provide new findings about the role of enrichment egg components on health, prevention and treatment of diseases are discussed. A novel viewpoint is proposed in this review, highlighting the perspective for an increase of consumption of egg and egg products, mainly in markets where the consumption pattern is known to be low. How the information about shell eggs and its nutrients reach the consumer strongly affect the way this food of higher biological functions takes part in the human diet.
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| Tipo: |
Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-70542013000200001
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| Editor: |
Editora da Universidade Federal de Lavras
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| Relação: |
10.1590/S1413-70542013000200001
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| Formato: |
text/html
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| Fonte: |
Ciência e Agrotecnologia v.37 n.2 2013
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| Direitos: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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