Phytochemicals in the Diet: Health Implications, Safety Issues, and Molecular Mechanisms

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a Special Issue on the impact of phytochemicals from the diet on health, their physiological effects, and metabolic outcomes in Antioxidants.

Plant foods contain a plethora of active components such as dietary fiber, folate, vitamins, (poly)phenols, carotenoids, coumarins, organosulfurs, isothiocyanates, methylxanthines, saponins, phenylpropanoids, anthraquinones, ginsenosides, and so on. Epidemiological and clinical studies have shown that phytochemicals improve human health by lowering the risk of and preventing chronic diseases when consumed as part of a healthy diet. How dietary phytochemicals are metabolized and interact with other bioactive compounds, their biochemical and molecular effects on different metabolic pathways, and their role in the human organism has not been fully elucidated and requires more research. 

This Special Issue seeks to collect state-of-the-art original research focusing on the implications of phytochemicals in the diet, including clinical, epidemiological, in vivo, and in vitro studies underlining the impact of phytochemicals on health and disease. As our knowledge about phytochemicals is continuously progressing, this Special Issue will collect the most updated insights into the effects of dietary phytochemicals on health. We welcome your contributions in the form of original research articles, reviews, short communications, systematic reviews, or meta-analyses covering topics such as:

• Beneficial and adverse effects of dietary phytochemicals;
• Phytochemicals as a nutraceutical for the prevention of disease;
• Toxicology and safety aspects of the consumption of specific phytochemicals;
• Absorption, biotransformation, and metabolism of phytochemicals;
• Molecular mechanisms of the action of different phytochemicals;
• Trends in the consumption of phytochemicals as nutraceuticals and functional foods;
• Extraction and analysis of phytochemicals in food and biological samples.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Dr. Miguel Rebollo-Hernanz
Prof. Dr. Yolanda Aguilera Gutiérrez
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Antioxidants is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• phytochemicals
• diet
• functional foods
• nutraceuticals
• antioxidant
• bioavailability
• biotransformation
• inflammation
• metabolism
• noncommunicable diseases
• toxicology