MECANISMOS DE RESISTÊNCIA DAS PLANTAS ALIMENTÍCIAS NÃO CONVENCIONAIS (PANC) E BENEFÍCIOS PARA A SAÚDE HUMANA

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.2661909084

• Palavras-chave: alimentos, metabólitos, plantas espontâneas, resistência.

• Keywords: foods, metabolites, spontaneous plants, resistance.

• Abstract:

  Unconventional food plants can be

  alternative natural sources to the diversification

  of human nutrition. However, many of these

  food sources are little known or have fallen

  into disuse, due to the current patterns of

  globalized nutrition imposed by agriculture and

  industrialization. Because they are spontaneous and emerge in undesirable places from

  a human perspective, many of these plants are called “weeds” and end up being target

  of herbicides. Selective pressures of biotic, abiotic nature, as well as anthropogenic

  actions, can contribute to select biotypes of food plants with differential metabolisms

  that can be used in food and/or human health. Therefore, the present work aims to

  contribute to the identification of these food plants present in the natural heritage of

  UFRPE, as well as to discuss its main mechanisms of resistance and the benefits

  that these mechanisms can bring to human health. The introduction of food plants

  such as Amaranthus deflexus, Solanum stramonifolium, Conyza bonariensis, Piper

  marginatum, and also Alternanthera tenella in the human menu can act preventing,

  and often controlling some chronic non-transmissible human diseases. In addition,

  further studies in its composition are important to obtain data that account for possible

  nutrients to be used in the basic physiological maintenance of the human body.

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