Bioactive Compounds in Food Nutrition: Identification and Biological Activity
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 4730
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polyphenols; inflammation; food toxicology; health effects; functional food
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Interests: fermented foods; tea; nutrition; polysaccharides; gut microbiota
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural products have been well known since antiquity for their beneficial effects on human health and have been utilised in chronic diseases and gut health, etc. Since then, they have attracted the interest of the scientific community, leading to the identification, isolation and quantification of their compounds and the study of their biomedical properties. These natural products greatly affect health through the modulation of key genes related to metabolism. The consumption of natural products, such as phenolics, polyphenols, flavonoids, phytosterols, phospholipids, bioactive peptides and dietary fiber components, also affects the microbiome present in the hindgut and these microorganisms synthesize many metabolites that affect the prevalence of chronic, infectious, and even neurological diseases that significantly impact life expectancy and quality.
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Nutritional and health implications (antihypertensive, anti-diabetic, anti-obesity, anti-cholesterolemic, and anti-acetylcholinesterase) of phytochemicals (phenolics, polyphenols, flavonoids, phytosterols, phospholipids, bioactive peptides and dietary fiber components).
- Effects of food processing on the nutritional value and bioactivity of phytochemicals in foods.
- Interactions between nutrients and bioactive compounds associated with foods that control metabolic pathways, chronic diseases, and cancer.
- Bioactive peptides in foods with health benefits focused on the reduction in inflammation, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular risk.
Dr. Dongxu Wang
Prof. Dr. Guijie Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural products
- polyphenols
- bioactive peptides
- dietary fiber
- nutritional value
- chronic diseases
- inflammation
- gut health
- food processing
- food nutrition
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