In this chapter we analyze the trends of wild food plant consumption in Europe in the last two
centuries, focusing on emergency foods in time of crisis, food traditions and neglected wild …

The aim of this review is to present an overview of changes in the contemporary use of wild
food plants in Europe, mainly using the examples of our home countries: Poland, Italy …

The human feeding process has experienced constant evolution through history. Plant
products known by primitive people were used with different objectives: food, medicine …

The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is an old discipline that has
been invigorated by a new generation of researchers pursuing ethnobotanical studies in …

This book reports on an old and venerable discipline, the study of European wild food plants
and herbal medicines, invigorated by a new generation of researchers pursuing modern …

Bio-cultural and historical aspects of the “wild plant” portion of the Mediterranean Diet are
still very much understudied despite the large number of bio-medical studies on the topic …

This book is the result of collaboration between botanists and food chemists, with the
purpose of improving the knowledge of the main wild species of traditional use as foods in …

A comparative food ethnobotanical study was carried out in twenty-one local communities in
Italy, fourteen of which were located in Northern Italy, one in Central Italy, one in Sardinia …

The Mediterranean basin has a long and multifaceted cultural history and harbors a high
biodiversity. Epidemiological studies have drawn attention to certain traditional …

The use of local Mediterranean food plants is at the brink of disappearance. Even though
there is relatively abundant information on inventories of wild edible taxa, there is also a …