Bioactive Natural Molecules from Functional Foods

Dear Colleagues,

Medicinal plants have been used to treat various diseases for a long time, not only as a traditional medicine but also as functional foods. Today, functional foods from natural resources are attracting people commercially and for disease treatment together with medicine. Thus, research on bioactive constituents of functional foods is highly important. Isolation and structure determination work of bioactive molecules will provide strong scientific evidence for those functional foods as well as traditional medicine. As functional food markets continue to expand worldwide, their study is becoming increasingly important.

In the present collection, bioactive natural molecules from functional foods are the main topics which will include the following.

1. Isolation and structure identifications of compounds from functional foods or traditional medicine;
2. Bioactivity study with natural molecules from functional foods or traditional medicine;
3. Analysis of bioactive compound(s) from functional foods or traditional medicines using QNMR or MS-MS study including metabolomic study with strong scientific evidence;
4. Standardization method development of functional foods or traditional medicines.

Prof. Dr. Eun Kyoung Seo
Dr. Joo-Won Nam
Collection Editors

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