Most foods are considered functional in terms of providing nutrients and/or energy to sustain basic life, but nutraceuticals and functional foods a...

Vegetables and fruits with diverse natural colours contain abundant functional phytochemicals such as carotenoids, anthocyanins and betalains. Addi...

Most food nutrition contains the phytochemicals for human health. Carotenoids and polyphenols, such as flavonoids and phenolic acids, might be espe...

Today, the vegetables and fruits humans ingest daily contain a multitude of compounds; these include polyphenols, dietary fibers, organosulfides, i...

Epidemiologically, nutritious values of vegetables and fruits have been the focus for daily health maintenance and disease prevention. Health phyto...

Diverse phytochemical functions on vegetables and fruits are discussed. Each chapter of Volume 5 describes the components and health effects. These...

Interestingly, vegetables and fruits represent different medicinal effects for age-related diseases such as hypertension, different types of cancer...

In East Asia, Korean ginseng has long been used as a private medicine and nourishing tonic, used for maintaining physical strength as well as treat...

Summary of these eight titles is made as follows: Chapter 1: Ginkgo biloba has long been used as a folklore medicine in China, India and these neig...

In India and the surrounding countries, turmeric has long been used as a traditional folk medicine for treating and preventing various diseases as ...

Herbal or plant ingredients demonstrate beneficial effects against human disease treatment and prevention. These ingredients are collectively refer...

Ochratoxin is a kind of secondary metabolite produced by Aspergillus and Penicillium. It mainly contains Ochartoxin A (OTA), Ochratoxin B (OTB), Oc...

This book "The olive, its processing and waste management", endeavours to cover a broad spectrum regarding different aspects of the olive oil secto...

Olive oil, which has been part of the human diet for more than 5,000 years, is almost unique among oils in that it can be consumed in the crude for...

In Chapter One, D M Salazar, I López-Cortés, and D C Salazar-García give an overview of the composition of fatty acids, tocopherols, and polyphenol...

The economic impact of food-borne illnesses caused by bacteria associated with food animals ranges from $10 to 40 billion (USD) per year, and effec...

Flavonoids and organosulfur compounds are the two major classes of secondary metabolites found in onions that are believed to play a role as health...

Plastics processing is a major industrial activity, which yields components and systems for a wide range of industries, such as packaging, automoti...

A solvent is a liquid that becomes a solution by dissolving a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute. The most common solvent in everyday life is water. ...

Palm oil is considered as one of the most traded agricultural commodities in the world. It is conventionally being used for food and dietary applic...

Members of the genus Vibrio are natural habitants of the marine environments. Many of them are human pathogens and can cause illness associated wit...

In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the cultivation, varieties and nutritional uses of peas. Topics discussed in thi...