Bioactive maca ( Lepidium meyenii ) alkamides are a result of traditional Andean postharvest drying practices
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New alkamides from maca (Lepidium meyenii).
Maca (Lepidium meyenii) has been used as a food in Peru for thousands of years. More recently a wide array of commercial maca products have gained popularity as dietary supplements, with claims of anabolic and aphrodisiac effects, although the biologically active principles are not fully known. In an earlier chemical investigation, two new alkamides and a novel fatty acid, as well as the N-hydr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Phytochemistry
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0031-9422
DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2015.02.030