Plant Foods and Underutilized Fruits as Source of Functional Food Ingredients: Chemical Composition, Quality Traits, and Biological Properties
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2018) | Viewed by 46643
Special Issue Editors
2. Chestnut R&D Center—Piemonte, Regione Gambarello 23, 12013 Chiusa di Pesio, Italy
Interests: tree crops; chestnut cultivation; secondary metabolites; quality assessment; nutraceutical properties; sustainability
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Interests: green extraction; ultrasound; waste management; circular economy; food chemistry; dietary food supplements; functional foods
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Changes in lifestyle and demographics, rising consumer incomes, and shifting preferences due to advanced knowledge about the relationships between food and health, contribute to generate new needs in food supply. Today, the role of food is not only intended as hunger satisfaction and nutrient supplying, but also as an opportunity to prevent nutrition-related diseases and improve physical and mental well-being. For this reason, there is a growing interest in novel or less well-known plant foods that offer an opportunity for health maintenance. Recently, interest in plant foods and underutilized fruits is ever more growing and agrobiodiversity exploitation offers effective and extraordinary potentialities. Plant foods could be an important source of health-promoting compounds and functional food ingredients with benefical properties: the description of quality and physico-chemical traits, the identification and quantification of bioactive compounds, and the evaluation of their biological activities are important to assess plant food efficacy as functional foods or source of food supplement ingredients.
Dr. Dario Donno
Dr. Federica Turrini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
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natural plant foods
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healthy properties
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phytochemicals
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agrobiodiversity
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human nutrition
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analytical strategies
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bioactivity
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unconventional fruits
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in vitro test
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natural antioxidants
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