Traditional Food Products from Prosopis sp. Flour

SCIAMMARO LP; RIBOTTA PD; PUPPO MC

Traditional Foods; General and Consumer Aspects

Springer-Verlag GmbH

Año: 2016; p. 209 - 216

Prosopis genus belongs to leguminous family and to mimosoidea subfamily; include 44 species (Burkart, 1976 a) with great importance in the tree and shrub composition of arid and semiarid regions. Prosopis distribution includes southwest Asia (three native species), tropical Africa (one native species) and America with 40 native species. In the last continent Prosopis is extended through southwest of USA to Argentinean Patagonia and Chile, being Argentina the major center of diversification, with the greatest proportion of endemic species.