title: [Health aspects of the use of low-calorie rations enriched with wild plants].
abstract: During two expeditions in the Polar and Northern Urals, performed in the summers of 1986 and 1987, hygienic aspects of consumption of wild edible plants to survive in the taiga were investigated. Rational use of wild green plants led to 2.8-5-fold increase of the daily food mass. Use of the low caloric diet supplemented with wild plants for as long as 6 or 14 days did not cause any pathological changes in the health condition of the test subjects as measured by biochemical and hematological parameters. The wild plants were also a good source of C vitamin. Organoleptic properties of 34 menu items made of wild edible plants were tested and hygienically acceptable procedures for cooking them were developed.
authors.forename: V G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Novoselov
mesh_terms: D003081:Cold Climate; D004032:Diet; D002149:Energy Intake; D005101:Expeditions; D006801:Humans; D010945:Plants, Edible; D014586:USSR
vernacular_title: Gigienicheskie aspekty primeneniia subkaloriĭnykh ratsionov, obogashchennykh dikorastushchimi rasteniiami.