Plant-Based Food: From Nutritional Value to Health Benefits: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Foods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 27
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food ingredients; functional substances
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Interests: phytochemicals accumulation; sprouts producing; seeds germination; gamma-aminobutyric acid metabolism and its signal function; phenolics accumulation; food chemistry; metabolomics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants are considered an important source of bioactive compounds. Plant-based bioactive compounds have demonstrated their role in various health benefits, such as anti-cardiovascular disease, anti-cancer, anti-diabetic, and other effects. The primary bioactive compounds in plants are flavonoids, phenolic acids, alkaloids, saponins, polysaccharides, etc. Bioactive compounds in fruits, vegetables, medicinal plants, and cereals have been widely used in the development of plant-based functional foods. However, considering the low levels of bioactive compounds in most plants, there are many traditional and innovative techniques (e.g., germination, exogenous additive treatment, abiotic stress, and physical treatments) that promote the accumulation of them. Furthermore, the molecular mechanisms that these enrichment techniques regulate, regarding the biosynthesis of active substances in plants, need to be further explored. Therefore, this Special Issue is dedicated to original research articles that cover the latest findings on the enrichment techniques and molecular mechanisms of plant-based bioactive compounds.
Dr. Yongqi Yin
Dr. Runqiang Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- phytochemicals
- biological compounds
- plant-based functional foods
- characterization
- functional attributes
- phenolic compound
- food processing
- bioavailability
- abiotic stress
- physiological metabolism
- biosynthesis mechanism
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