However, this plant has rarely been studied,
and its importance from the nutritional and functional point of
view is still a subject of research. To our knowledge, only one
paper has been published on the composition of its seeds (1);
these authors have indicated that this plant can be considered as
a potential new crop for some forest regions of South America,
because it contains 35–60% oil and around 27% proteins rich in
cysteine, tyrosine, threonine, and tryptophan.