Food Bioactives Extraction and Biotechnology Applications
This book focuses on various types of bioactive compounds, including secondary metabolites, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, flavonoids, peptides/proteins, carotenoid pigments, quinones, terpenes, and polyunsaturated fatty acids, and presents an overvie
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Food Bioactives Extraction and Biotechnology Applications
Food Bioactives
Munish Puri Editor
Food Bioactives Extraction and Biotechnology Applications
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Editor Munish Puri Bioprocessing Laboratory, Centre for Chemistry and Biotechnology Deakin University Waurn Ponds, VIC Australia and Centre for Marine Bioproducts Development, Medical Biotechnology, Flinders Medical Science and Technology School of Medicine Flinders University Adelaide Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-51637-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-51639-4
ISBN 978-3-319-51639-4
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Foreword
For many years, bioactive compounds have been of great use to humans because of their applications as flavor compounds and nutritional agents, and for their medicinal uses as antibiotics, anticancer agents, hypocholesterolemic agents, immunosuppressants, and therapeutics for pathologies such as cardiovascular, thrombotic, atherosclerotic inflammatory, and neurodegenerative diseases. Bioactives include polysaccharides, proteoglycans, peptides, lipids, terpenes, polyphenols, mussel adhesive proteins, omega-3 fatty acids, carotenoids, and pigments. It has also been discovered that they serve as major defense systems in plants. In addition, plant food bioactives have shown effectiveness as neurocognitive agents against neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. Bioactive compounds are generally superior to chemically derived products for the above functions. This book, edited by Prof. Munish Puri, is an excellent review of bioactive agents and will be u
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