Bioactive Nutrients as Dietary Supplements and Therapeutic Agents

An Introduction to Nutraceuticals

Asma Saeed, Saeed Iqbal Zafar (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

668 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-8616-1 (ISBN)

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Nutraceutical, during recent decades, has emerged as a new term in the scientific literature. Synonymously used to the term nutraceuticals in literature are dietary supplements, bioactive nutrients, functional foods, etc. This book considers how nutraceutical substances are regulated in different countries; the physiological role of dietary fibers in relation to their claimed health benefits within the scope of functional foods, dietary supplements, and nutraceuticals; prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics as nutraceuticals; and the nature of a large number of phytochemicals as nutraceuticals. The book also touts fruits and vegetables as Nature's multinutraceutical capsules, as evidenced from their beneficial health effects emerging from epidemiological studies on such diseases as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular, cancer, osteoporosis, rheumatism, diverticulitis, etc. In light of this, international launching of campaigns on health benefits as "go for 2-5" daily servings of fruits and vegetables is also considered.

Dr Asma Saeed is Chief Scientific Officer at the Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and the Institute for Technical Chemistry, Germany. Her research interests include the production of organic acids and the isolation and purification of flavonoids as nutraceuticals. She has been honored with prestigious awards and published 60 scientific papers and two books. Additionally, she holds three patents and has 20 industrial processes in her credit.Dr Saeed Iqbal Zafar has served as the Director General at the Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research. He earned his PhD in Plant Sciences from the University of Alberta, Canada, and his research focuses on mushroom technology and the production of phytochemicals of nutraceutical importance. He received fellowships from the National Research Council Canada, the University of Osaka, Japan and the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Dr Saeed holds two patents, has authored 12 research reports, developed and leased out six processes, and has published 100 scientific articles.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-5275-8616-2 / 1527586162
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-8616-1 / 9781527586161
Zustand	Neuware