Bioactive Ingredients in Functional Foods: Molecular Nutrition Mechanisms and Disease Prevention
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutraceuticals, Functional Foods, and Novel Foods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2023) | Viewed by 2334
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food chemistry; nutraceuticals; functional foods; disease prevention
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: animal models; functional foods; toxicology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bioactive food ingredients are non-essential substances found in foods that can modulate one or more metabolic processes, resulting in enhanced health. More than ever, functional diets have attracted bioactive ingredients as an alternative to conventional treatments of many diseases.
Components of functional foods are usually present in different forms, such as glycosylated, esterified, thiolylated, or hydroxylated forms. In particular, bioactive food ingredients are believed to be found mainly in plant foods, such as whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. Similarly, animal products such as milk, fermented milk products, and cold-water fish also contain bioactive components such as probiotics, conjugated linolenic acid, long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid, and bioactive peptides.
Chronic diseases (including diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, cancer and neurodegenerative diseases) and inflammatory-based diseases (such as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and Crohn’s disease) are life-long conditions that significantly impact quality of life. Bioactive food ingredients have increasingly become attractive alternatives to ameliorate some of the risk factors and symptoms associated with these chronic conditions.
This Special Issue aims to provide an overview of the current knowledge pertaining to the main molecular mechanisms that connect nutritional intake to chronic disease prevention.
Dr. Luisa Pozzo
Dr. Andrea Vornoli
Dr. Vincenzo Longo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nutraceuticals
- bioactive compounds
- functional foods
- disease prevention
- chronic diseases
- molecular mechanisms
