Plant Food Phytochemicals and Bioactive Compounds in Nutrition and Health (Paperback, 1)

Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgment. List of Contributors. Introduction to food bioactive phytochemicals. Food sources of bioactive phytochemicals. Bioactivities of phytochemicals in nutrition and health. Extraction, purification, analysis, and identification techniques of bioactive phytochemicals. Production, stability, and industrial commercialization of bioactive phytochemicals. Absorption, bioavailability, bioaccessibility, metabolism and excretion of bioactive food phytochemical. Phytochemicals as Potential Functional Foods and Nutraceutical Ingredients. Berries and Their Promising Potential Health Benefits. Free Radicals and Antioxidant Quenching Properties of Plant Phytochemicals in the Management of Oxidative Stress. The Protective Role of Phytochemicals in Cardiovascular Disease. Anticancer Potentials of Food Phytochemicals. Antidiabetic Activity of Food Phytochemicals. Potentials of Food Phytochemicals in the Treatment and Management of Obesity. Anti- Inflammatory Properties of Food Phytochemicals. Neurodegenerative disease protective functions of food phytochemicals. Immune Modulatory Activity of Food Phytochemicals. Bioactive phytochemicals in the development of alternative medicine. Food- Derived Bioactive Components and Health Claims: The Role of Regulatory Agencies. Bioactive phytochemicals and the human gut microbiome and health. Use of Bioactive phytochemicals in human trials ? current status. Bioactive phytochemicals in personalized nutrition and health. Index.