Bioactive Compounds and Their Availability in In Vitro Digestion Studies
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 10425
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microencapsulation of bioactive compounds; processing of food products of plant origin and their compounds (vegetables, fruits and cereals); experimental design in food technology
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Dear Colleagues,
Consumers are increasingly realizing that in addition to satisfying hunger, food also fulfills several important functions in the human body. Within research, the focus has been shifting from merely basic food such as carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, towards other issues such as bioactive compounds. Bioactive compounds may be defined as substances that, in addition to their nutritional value, are able to regulate biological processes in the human body and have an impact on body function and health. The term commonly refers to the compounds that have measurable effect at a physiologically realistic level and where the impact is positive. Such bioactive compounds, e.g., polyphenols, anthocyanins, carotenoids, and peptides are now increasingly used in the area of new product development. It is therefore important to examine how such compounds are available for and functioning in the human body, and hence the effect of gastrointestinal digestion. In vivo feeding methods, using either animals or humans, would give the most accurate results. However, these methods are time consuming, expensive and often associated with ethical issues. In vitro methods are a cheaper and faster alternative to clinical trials that produce results that can be easily transposed into an animal or human model.
In this Special Issue, we will focus on the possibilities of testing the bioavailability of various bioactive substances that are in vitro digested individually or in a matrix, as well as research issues connected with interactions between nutrients and their release in digestive tract from the fields like nutrition, pharmacology and food chemistry.
Prof. Dr. Marcin A. Kurek
Dr. Ida-Johanne Jensen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- in vitro digestion
- digestion
- bioactive compounds
- bioavailability
- bioaccessability