Medeiros Maria Franco Trindade, Albuquerque Ulysses Paulino
Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Campus de Cuité, Centro de Educação e Saúde, Unidade Acadêmica de Educação, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Olho D´Água da Bica s/n, Cuité, Paraíba CEP: 58175-000, Brazil.
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 2014 Jun 25;10:50. doi: 10.1186/1746-4269-10-50.
This article reports historical ethnobotany research conducted from a study of the work Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (Natural History of Brazil), authored by Piso and Marcgrave and published in 1648, with main focus on Caatinga of northeast region of Brazil.
Focusing the content analysis on the section dedicated to plant species with multiple uses, Marcgrave's contribution to the aforementioned work, this research had the following objectives: the retrieval of 17th century knowledge about the food uses of the flora in the northeast region of Brazil, including the taxonomic classifications; the identification of plant parts, their modes of consumption and the ethnic group of consumers; and the verification of the use of these species over time.
The use of 80 food species at the time of the publication of the work is indicated, some of which are endemic to the Caatinga, such as "umbu" (Spondias tuberosa Arruda), "mandacaru" (Cereus jamacaru DC.) and "carnauba" (Copernicia cerifera Mart.). It is noticeable that among the species listed by Marcgrave, some species still lack current studies indicating their real nutritional value. The present study is an unprecedented work because it introduces, in a systematic way, the food plants described in a study of 17th century Brazil.
Finally, this study makes information about plants consumed in the past accessible, aiming to provide material for studies that could develop new food products today.
本文报道了一项历史民族植物学研究，该研究基于对皮索和马克格拉夫所著并于1648年出版的《巴西自然史》（Historia Naturalis Brasiliae）的研究，主要聚焦于巴西东北部的卡廷加地区。
本研究将内容分析聚焦于上述著作中马克格拉夫对具有多种用途的植物物种部分的贡献，其目标如下：检索17世纪巴西东北部地区植物群食物用途的知识，包括分类学分类；识别植物部分、其食用方式及消费的族群；以及验证这些物种随时间的使用情况。
研究表明在该著作出版时80种食物物种的使用情况，其中一些是卡廷加地区特有的，如“umbu”（Spondias tuberosa Arruda）、“mandacaru”（Cereus jamacaru DC.）和“carnauba”（Copernicia cerifera Mart.）。值得注意的是，在马克格拉夫列出的物种中，一些物种目前仍缺乏表明其实际营养价值的研究。本研究是一项前所未有的工作，因为它以系统的方式介绍了17世纪巴西一项研究中描述的食用植物。
最后，本研究使过去食用植物的信息得以获取，旨在为如今可能开发新食品的研究提供素材。
