Taking Advantage of Nature Towards Health: Extraction and Application of Nutrients and Phytochemicals in Foods
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2019) | Viewed by 50318
Special Issue Editors
Interests: lipidomics; plant oxylipins; bioaccessibility; bioavailability; bioactivity; structure-activity relationship (SAR); in vitro models of biological activity; inflammation; oxidative stress; immune system
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2. Associated Unit of R&D and Innovation CEBAS-CSIC+UPCT on “Quality and Risk Assessment of Foods”, CEBAS-CSIC, Campus Espinardo - 25, E-30100 Murcia, Spain
Interests: food science and technology; phytochemistry; bioactive compounds; health promoters; functional ingredients, beverages and foods; natural and minimally processed foods; healthy foods; energy metabolism (obesity, diabetes); chronic inflammation; human nutrition; wellbeing
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Interests: bioactive compounds of vegetable origin; nutrition and health; development of new plant foods and natural products; pharmacology applications; in vitro and in vivo animal models; bioaccessibility, pharmacokinetics, and bioavailability of bioactive compounds
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The functional compounds in foods and by-products have attracted the attention of the scientific community because of the requirement of finding and controlling the factors that contribute to lessening the prevalence and severity of certain diseases and aging. In this connection, the bioactive constituents of foods and, especially, of those recovered from by-products, may be suitable to be applied as ingredients in the development of functional foods and ingredients, as well as nutraceuticals. Nevertheless, the application of these bioactive molecules as functional foods and ingredients has remained limited for several reasons, mainly because of the lack of appropriate multi-disciplinary studies. As a result of this, the present Special Issue is aimed at gathering outstanding cross-disciplinary approaches (reviews and original research) applying the optimization and validation of analytical methods of extraction and analysis of bioactive compounds, and of new markers of functionality in humans by advanced techniques, the design and development of new functional foods, beverages, and ingredients, as well as the evaluation of their stability in storage, and intervention studies in vitro and in vivo, characterizing the potential of bioactive nutrients and non-nutrients in foods and agro-food by-products, as well as the result of their microbial metabolism from the biological activity and health protection perspective.
Dr. Raúl Domínguez-Perles
Prof. Cristina García-Viguera
Dr. Nieves Baenas Navarro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Foods
- Agro-food by-products
- Extracting methods
- Functional foods and ingredients
- Nutarceuticals
- In vitro and in vivo biological activity
- Functionality assays
- Microbial derivatives
- Health
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