Improving Health and Nutrition through Bioactive Compounds
Benefits and Applications
- 1st Edition - November 20, 2024
- Latest edition
- Editor: Maira Rubi Segura Campos
- Language: English
Improving Health and Nutrition through Bioactive Compounds: Benefits and Applications presents bioactive compounds and functional foods as a therapeutic approach to disease a… Read more
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Description
Description
Improving Health and Nutrition through Bioactive Compounds: Benefits and Applications presents bioactive compounds and functional foods as a therapeutic approach to disease and overall health and well-being. It covers various bioactive compounds, including peptides, phenols, and flavonoids as foods to consider for complementary treatment in disease management. Written for nutrition researchers, food scientists, graduate students and other food science and health professionals, this book is a welcomed reference for those who wish to better understand the role of bioactive compounds and functional foods in the treatment and prevention of disease.
Key features
Key features
- Highlights dietary alternatives to health management and disease treatment and prevention
- Covers bioactive constituents of foods, phytochemicals, and the effect of digestion or processing on food components
- Considers the link between food composition and processing on the nutritional and functional quality of foods, along with the role of diet in enhancing consumer health
Readership
Readership
Nutrition researchers, food scientists, graduate students and other food science and health professionals
Table of contents
Table of contents
2. Profiling of essential oils by direct non-destructive methods: FTIR and DART mass spectrometry
3. Bioactive components of coffee according to the degree of roasting
4. Citrus flavonoids-based delivery systems as ingredients in functional foods
5. Phaseolus vulgaris as a source of peptides and biofunctional compounds
6. Chickpea proteins: purification, identification methods and implications in health
7. Bioactive peptides as food preservatives: sources, extraction, and applications
8. Application of traditional Mexican medicine in COVID-19 outpatients
9. The bioavailability of phytochemicals and its relationship with health benefits on metabolic syndromes (General title Bioavailability x bioactivity of phytochemicals)
10. Microencapsulation as an effective technology for the incorporation of chia oil in processed food
11. Edible flowers as sources of bioactive compounds
12. Phenolic compounds, cytotoxic activity and classification of tropical fruits from southeast Mexico
13. Pro-health benefits of Spinochromes, marine polyphenols, from sea urchins
14. Medicinal plants suitable as additives for aquaculture
15. Obtaining and application biocompounds from chia seeds
16. Effect of simulated gastrointestinal digestion on protein derivatives from Mucuna pruriens (Velvet Bean) with potential protective and antioxidant activity
17. Development of a functional edible coating based on starch and moringa extract for the conservation of minimally processed chicozapote (Achras sapota)
18. Goji berries phytochemical reasons to be qualified as a functional food
19. Bioactive compounds of fruit and vegetables and its coproducts in the development of dairy functional products
20. Bioactive compounds of Plinia peruviana and Sicana odorifera, authoctons fruits from Paraguay with nutraceuticals properties
21. Phytochemicals and medicinal plants: extraction, purification, and identification methods.
22. The nutraceutical properties of C-phycocyanin: an antioxidant perspective.
23. Bioactive compounds and functional foods of superfoods
24. Antioxidant and antimicrobial mechanisms of carotenoids and phenolic compounds present in natural foods
25. Bioaccessibility, bioavailability and bioactivity of phenolic compounds from cereals and legumes
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: November 20, 2024
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
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