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G Model YJFCA-1839; No. of Pages 13 Journal of Food Composition and Analysis xxx (2010) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Food Composition and Analysis journal homepage: www.elsevier .com/locat e/jfca Critical Review Linking biodiversity, food and nutrition: The importance of plant identification and nomenclature—A review Mark Nesbitt a,*, Rory P.H. McBurney a,b, Melanie Broin c, Henk J. Beentje a a Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, United Kingdom b Centre for Biocultural Diversity, Department of Anthropology, Marlowe Building, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NR, United Kingdom c Moringanews Network, 11 rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine, 75011 Paris, France A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: The use of biodiversity for food and nutrition requires accurate, reliable and accessible food composition Received 28 March 2008 data. It is essential for users of such data to be certain of the reliability of identification and naming of Received in revised form 20 March 2009 food plants, which is particularly problematic for lesser-known wild or locally cultivated plants. The Accepted 25 March 2009 aims of this paper are to assess the reliability and quality of botanical information in papers citing quantitative food composition data of wild and locally cultivated species and to make recommendations Keywords: for minimum standards in publishing botanical information with food composition data. We develo