Crocus L. is a genus of perennial plants in the family Iridaceae. Numerous research
regarding healing effects of Crocus spp. on human diseases are being published worldwide …

Discovering new drugs for treating different health problems is one of the basic needs of
human societies. There are various strategies to find new lead compounds. One of the most …

Local cuisine is an important reservoir of local ecological knowledge shaped by a variety of
socio-cultural, economic, and ecological factors. The aim was to document and compare the …

Foraging in the British Isles is an increasingly popular activity for both personal consumption
and for commercial purposes. While legislation and guidelines exist regulating the …

One of the distinctive features of the human taste system is that it categorizes food into a few
taste qualities–eg, sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami. Here, I examined the functional …

Background Traditional knowledge is key for sustainability, but it is rapidly disappearing. Pig
keeping in forests and marshes is an ancient, once widespread, now vanishing practice …

Background: Bulgarian poetic folklore reflects an agrarian culture deeply connected with
land and nature. However, traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) transmitted through …

Ranunculus macrophyllus Desf. is a lesser-known yet regularly used vegetable in
Mediterranean folk diets for its nutritional and medicinal properties. There is a lack of …

This paper is an historical review of ethnobotanical notes about wild and cultivated edible
plants collected through texts from the end of the 18th century (1796) to the first decades of …

Numerous fragments of Cornus sanguinea (dogwood) fruit stones were found in the cultural
layer of the Late Neolithic pile dwelling site Strojanova voda at Ljubljansko barje, Slovenia …