Nutraceuticals and Health Care

Jasmeet Kour, Gulzar Nayik
Elsevier S&T
398 pages
ISBN: 9780323897792
November 2021

This book explores the role of plant-based nutraceuticals as food ingredients and as therapeutic agents for preventing various diseases. It assesses the role of nutraceuticals in addressing cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity by highlighting the derivatives, extraction, chemistry, mechanism of action, pharmacology, bioavailability, and safety of specific nutraceuticals. It analyzes twenty one nutraceuticals in a systematic way, providing a welcomed reference for nutrition researchers, nutritionists and dieticians, as well as other scientists studying related areas in food science, technology or agriculture.