Phytochemicals of nutraceutical importance /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2014.
• Subjects: Functional foods.; Phytochemicals.; Nutrition.; Crop Produce.; Other Produce.; Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, (New June 2002); Physiology of Human Nutrition.; Nutrition related Disorders and Therapeutic Nutrition.; Non-communicable Human Diseases and Injuries.; Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Anticarcinogenic properties.; Antioxidants.; Biological activity.; Carotenoids.; Chronic diseases.; Disease prevention.; Food microbiology.; Food supplements.; Glucosinolates.; Human diseases.; Kidney diseases.; Kidneys.; Medical treatment.; Medicinal plants.; Microorganisms.; Minerals.; Natural products.; Neoplasms.; Nutrient intake.; Nutrigenomics.; Nutritive value.; Plant oestrogens.; Polyenoic fatty acids.; Resveratrol.; Synbiotics.; Traditional medicine.; Traditional medicines.; Turmeric.; Vitamins.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 364 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book, divided into 6 parts, provides information on the protective and health-beneficial effects of phytochemicals of nutraceutical importance. Part I provides an introduction and overview of phytochemicals. Part 2 focuses on phytochemicals in disease and prevention therapy, specifically in chronic kidney disease and cancer; a chapter also focuses on the application of resveratrol as a chemopreventive agent. Part 3 discusses potential alternative therapeutic dietary supplements such as synbiotics, nutraceuticals from microbes, and phytochemicals from the cactus plant. Part 4 features the importance and benefits of dietary phytopharmaceuticals, including omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, glucosinolates, phytoestrogens, phytosterols and carotenoids. Part 5 discusses antioxidant phytonutrients and their therapeutic values. Part 6 examines potential traditional and novel food interventions, including Curcuma longa L., plants used in traditional medicine, vitamins and minerals, and nutrigenomics.