The definition of Non-Conventional Food Plants (PANC) seeks to contemplate plants that have a
or more of the categories of alimentary use that are not of the day to day of the great majority of the population of a region,
of a country or even the planet, since at present, in general, the population's diet is basic, very
homogeneous, monotonous and globalized (KINUPP & LORENZI, 2014).
Thus, the term PANC involves all plants that have one or more parts that can be consumed
in human food, whether they are exotic, native, wild, spontaneous, rudimentary or cultivated, including
species, but which contain parts, portions and / or non-food
conventional. An example is the banana heart and palm heart (KINUPP & LORENZI, 2014).
In general, studies related to these non-conventional plant species
poor and in social risk situations, such as indigenous peoples, agrarian reform settlements, river banks, etc. O
scientific knowledge of this kind, when passed on to these
positive changes in their food and nutritional security.
or more of the categories of alimentary use that are not of the day to day of the great majority of the population of a region,
of a country or even the planet, since at present, in general, the population's diet is basic, very
homogeneous, monotonous and globalized (KINUPP & LORENZI, 2014).
Thus, the term PANC involves all plants that have one or more parts that can be consumed
in human food, whether they are exotic, native, wild, spontaneous, rudimentary or cultivated, including
species, but which contain parts, portions and / or non-food
conventional. An example is the banana heart and palm heart (KINUPP & LORENZI, 2014).
In general, studies related to these non-conventional plant species
poor and in social risk situations, such as indigenous peoples, agrarian reform settlements, river banks, etc. O
scientific knowledge of this kind, when passed on to these
positive changes in their food and nutritional security.
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