Nutraceutical Components of Plants and Plant Seeds
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 November 2021) | Viewed by 31177
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nutraceutical components in plants; crop genetic and germplasm diversity; chemical characterization of plant and seeds; natural and healthy foods; glucosinolates
Interests: nutraceutical components bioaccessibility; micronutrients bioaccesibility and bioavailability; health-promoting foods; speciation analysis of inorganic micronutrients
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Globally, today’s society faces what is known as the “health trilemma”, which tells us that food, human health, and the environment are closely linked, and it is necessary to establish a balance among them to achieve a healthier life on a more sustainable planet.
The increase and promotion of the consumption of local plant-based foods (grains, legumes, fruits, and vegetables), and in particular those with nutraceutical components, is one of the crucial factors contributing to the solution of the above-mentioned trilemma.
Nutritional and epidemiological studies have shown that plants and plant seeds are an abundant source of nutraceuticals components having health-promoting and disease-preventing properties.
This Special Issue of Foods will focus on “Nutraceutical Components of Plants and Plant Seeds”. We are open to contributions (original research papers and high quality reviews), covering challenges and achievements in the study of the content and bioavailability of phytochemicals from plants and plant seeds that have healthy properties and are present in plants and plant seeds.
Likewise, this Special Issue would like to point the attention to the ongoing research activities dealing with the valorization as new functional foods of neglected and underutilized crops with nutraceutical components.
Other studies related to the effect of conventional and organic farming on the content and bioavailability of nutraceuticals will also be welcome in this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Antonio De Haro Bailón
Dr. Fernando Cámara-Martos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Chemical characterization of nutraceuticals in plants and plant seeds
- Phytochemicals
- Functional foods
- Health-promoting properties of plant and plant seeds
- In vitro and in vivo studies
- Bioaccesibility and bioavailability of nutraceutical components of plants
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