Preventive and Therapeutic Nutraceuticals
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemicals and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2024) | Viewed by 5052
Special Issue Editor
Interests: secondary metabolism of plants under stress conditions; functional foods and cell molecular targets; postharvest biology and technology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutraceuticals and functional foods are attracting attention for their potential preventive and therapeutic effects. Over the past few decades, enormous efforts have been devoted to exploring this exciting new topic, and a large body of preclinical and clinical evidence has been collected. In fact, it has been established that adherence to a healthy diet (i.e., the Mediterranean diet) or a diet supplemented with micronutrients (vitamins or minerals) or products isolated from vegetables (including phytosterols or flavonoids) may help in health and the prevention of chronic diseases.
Currently, many components of plants are well recognized for their beneficial health properties, but many components are still awaiting identification and functional characterization for their optimal use by the food and pharmaceutical industries in the development of new and highly effective medicines. Thus, despite much work that has been conducted, there is clearly room for research in this hot area at the basic, clinical, and epidemiological levels.
This Special Issue calls for original research as well as review articles and meta-analyses that consider a non-traditional use of nutraceuticals.
Prof. Dr. Luis Cisneros-Zevallos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nutraceuticals
- functional foods
- preventive effects
- therapeutic effects
- diet supplement
- micronutrients
