Therapeutic Foods:

Therapeutic Foods, Volume 8 in the Handbook of Food Bioengineering series, is an essential resource for anyone investigating foods that may be utilized as therapeutic agents. Plants and animal products have been utilized since ancient times as medicine to treat diseases, and the properties within fo...

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Other Authors: Grumezescu, Alexandru Mihai (Editor), Holban, Alina Maria (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Academic Press 2017
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Online Access:FAW01
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Summary:Therapeutic Foods, Volume 8 in the Handbook of Food Bioengineering series, is an essential resource for anyone investigating foods that may be utilized as therapeutic agents. Plants and animal products have been utilized since ancient times as medicine to treat diseases, and the properties within foods and ingredients are still investigated for food therapy and prophylaxis. The book is a comprehensive resource for researchers and scientists already in the field or those just entering. It covers many spices, plant extracts, essential oils and vegetal mixtures that have immune-stimulatory effects and can be efficiently utilized in the treatment of infections and cancer
Item Description:1. Nutraceuticals: myths vs. realities>2. The Impact of Functional food and Nutraceuticals in Health>3. Lipids as nutraceuticals: A shift in paradigm>4. Plant nutrition and agronomic management to obtain crops with better nutritional and nutraceutical quality>5. Mushrooms as a source of therapeutic foods>6. Oregano: a feed additive with functional properties>7. Potential of chokeberry (aronia melanocarpa l.) as a therapeutic food>8. Beta-Glucan as therapeutic food>9. Nutritionally enhanced foods incorporating chia seed>10. Perspective therapeutic effects of immunomodulating acidic herbal heteropolysaccharides and their complexes in functional and dietary nutrition>11. Soybeans, flaxseeds and fish oil in the treatment of renal disease>12. Maca, a nutraceutical from the Andean Highlands>13. Phytochemical and pharmacological properties of secondary metabolites in berries>14. Functional Foods and Chemoprevention in Cancer>15. Epigenetic Nutraceuticals in Cancer Treatment
Physical Description:1 online resource (538 pages)
ISBN:9780128115176
0128115173

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