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| Title |
Delicious, healthy, and good for digestion: medical discourse present in the consumption of fruit, preserves, and compotes in sixteenth-century Portuguese America
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| Published in |
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, October 2017
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| DOI | 10.1590/s0104-59702017000500003 |
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| Authors |
Christian Fausto Moraes Dos Santos, Julianna Morcelli Oliveros |
| Abstract |
One of the major challenges the European colonizers faced in sixteenth-century Portuguese America was adaptation to their new environment, especially nutritional obstacles. Obtaining the human body's daily calorie requirements may have been one of the more strenuous tasks in colonial dynamics. Their diets were composed of what was available; in this context, native fruits took on an important role, especially when consumed in the form of compotes and preserves. Our goal is to highlight the importance of colonial sweets, identify how they were consumed, and show the relationship between this activity and the medical discourse which was present in sixteenth-century Europe. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Postgraduate | 1 | 100% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 100% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 February 2018.
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#6,784,032
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#659
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#99,933
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#17
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Altmetric has tracked 25,461,852 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,628 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.1. This one is in the 17th percentile – i.e., 17% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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