Food for Health: Bioactive Compounds Analysis and Bioactivity
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Postharvest Biology, Quality, Safety, and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2023) | Viewed by 1647
Special Issue Editors
Interests: post-harvested processing; food safety; nutraceuticals; food waste valorization; food for health
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: food for health; isolation and characterization of bioactives; food & nutritional security; hunger and sustainability
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food provides energy and important nutrients, 'functional foods' provide additional health benefits, as well as meeting basic nutritional and energy needs. For example, fruits and vegetables are consumed mostly as fresh and unprocessed foods, thus providing bioactive components in a raw and natural form, which has significant advantages over processed food products. Extracting, isolating, and characterizing the components of functional foods that provide essential health benefits informs efforts to improve human health via improved foods, nutraceuticals, and novel therapeutics. With recent advances in analytical tools and techniques, we can now identify these key food components and measure their health-promoting activities. This Special Issue presents recent advances in the analysis of bioactive compounds from fruits and vegetables and the determination of their activities, thus providing a treasure trove of information for biochemists, plant breeders, nutritionists, and others interested in the health-promoting effects of fruits and vegetables.
Dr. Tarun Belwal
Prof. Dr. Bhimanagouda S. Patil
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- foods for health
- bioactive compounds
- bioactivity
- analytical techniques
- fruits and vegetables
- extraction
- isolation
- characterization
