Plant Extracts: From Extract Technology to Health Benefits
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Foods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2023) | Viewed by 20167
Special Issue Editors
Interests: phytochemicals; polyphenol; functional foods; gut health; intestinal microbiota; metabolic syndrome; metabolomics; molecular nutrition
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Interests: green extraction; polyphenols; carotenoids; antioxidant activity; biological activity
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Interests: food chemistry; natural products; antioxidant activity; chemical characterization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The extraction of plant specialized metabolites represents a challenge still today. Indeed, the recovery of bioactive compounds from by-products deriving from agri-food chains fits with the concept of environmental sustainability and circular economy. For this reason, the optimization of extraction processes based on green technologies, characterized by low energy-consuming, represents the goal for the development of large-scale methods to be implemented at an industrial level.
The topical issue regards the validation of the functional activity of the extracts on specific experimental models, that take into account the poor bioavailability and structural changes of these compounds, also due to modulation of the gut microbiota. Thus, the study of the biological effects of in vivo bio-transformed metabolites could represent another important advance in the knowledge of the mechanisms of action triggered by these compounds.
Prof. Dr. Zheng Ruan
Prof. Dr. Stefania Moccia
Dr. Giuseppina Crescente
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- phytochemicals
- green extraction
- natural extracts
- bioavailability
- gut microbiota
- health effects
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