Junça (Cyperus esculentus Linné), bulbilho consumido no Maranhão e que possui bom valor nutritivo.

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Autor(a) principal: Marx,Friedhelm
Data de Publicação: 1985
Outros Autores: Kerr,Warwick Estevam
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Acta Amazonica
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59671985000100265
Resumo: Junça (Cyperus esculentus Linné), edible bulb of Maranhão that has good nutritional value. F. Marx, and W. E. Kerr.Bulbs of junça one sold in the streets oF Sao Luis, Ma, Brazil, as a delicacy. It has good nutritional value like: 6-10% protein, 6.95 to 9,32mg/lOOg of alpha-tocoferol, 1.20 to 2.52mg/100 of gama-tocoferol, 424.4mg/100g of K and 3,5mg/100g of Zn.Our samples had 1.4% glicose and 16.0% of saccharose. Literature is revised and this bulb is recommended for human consumption.