Bioactive Compounds with Application Potentials in Nutraceuticals and Nutricosmetics: Focus on Mechanism of Action and Application Science

Dear Colleagues,

As biological compounds isolated from natural plants, nutraceuticals offer numerous benefits, such as preventing chronic disease, delaying aging, extending lifespan, improving health, and supporting body structure and function. Nutricosmetics can currently be used as nutritional supplements to provide adequate nutrients for nails, hair, and skin, and work from within the body to add beauty, while future trends in the health and beauty industry will revolve around nutraceuticals and nutricosmetics. Bioactive compounds are key factors for the development of nutraceuticals or nutricosmetics, as well as some functional foods. This topic invites recent studies covering, but not limited to, the following subtopics:

(1) Bioactivities of compounds from edible natural products, including ethnopharmacology and folk medicine with long histories of ingestion;
(2) Functional mechanism studies of nutraceuticals and nutricosmetics via biochemical analysis, in vitro/vivo/silico or evidence-based clinical trials;
(3) Process for biosynthesis and formulation of nutraceuticals, nutricosmetics, or biocompatible cosmetic materials;
(4) Advanced technologies for improving the stability and functionality of bioactive products for application.

Prof. Dr. Caili Fu
Prof. Dr. Hyun-Gyun Yuk
Dr. Pujie Shi
Dr. Tiantian Lin
Dr. Lin Chen
Dr. Xin Yang
Dr. Rong Fan
Topic Editors