Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples: Nutrition, Botany, and UseThis volume details the nutritional properties, botanical characteristics and ethnic uses of traditional food plants of indigenous Canadian Peoples. It contains an index of over one thousand plants from all provinces of Canada, as well as the bordering states, for which the Indian and Inuit peoples of each regfion have been consulted as the definitive source concerning plant usage within the scope of their environment and culture. Health care professionals and organizations working with Indigenous Canadian Peoples, biologists, ehtnologists and academics will appreciate the comprehensive information compiled on nutritional, medical and botanical characteristics. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
References for Nutrient Tables | 475 |
585 | 490 |
Appendices | 513 |
Species by botanical name | 565 |
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100g fresh weight Alaska Apiaceae Asteraceae berries Black Blackfoot blueberry boiled Brassicaceae British Columbia bulbs Canada canadensis Chenopodiaceae Chipewyan Chloride mg clusters Common name References Compositae constituents of plants cooked cranberry Crataegus Cree currant denum dried eaten fresh eaten raw edible Energy Water tein Ericaceae Eskimo Fabaceae Family name Common fern flavor flowers Gitksan greens Gunther Haida Halkomelem hydrate Fiber Ash Indian Indigenous inner bark Iroquois Kari Kindscher Kuhnlein Kwakwaka'wakw Lamiaceae leaves lichen Liliaceae Lillooet lily Lomatium maple mg mg mg Molyb mushroom name Common name name Family name Niacin Nlaka'pamux northern Nutritional constituents Nuu-chah-nulth Nuxalk Ojibwa Okanagan-Colville phorus Sodium sium plant foods Poaceae Polygonaceae Polygonum Prunus Related Species rhizomes Ribes roots Rosa Rosaceae Rosaceae fruit Rubus Salish saskatoon berries Scientific name Family seeds shoots Sodium sium sium stems sugar Tanaina thistle Turner and Efrat unpubl Vaccinium Vit.C Vit.A Waugh Wild Woods Cree Yellow Zinc Iron
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