Bioactive Compounds
Health Benefits and Potential Applications
- 1st Edition - December 1, 2018
- Editor: Maira Rubi Segura Campos
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 4 7 7 4 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 4 7 7 5 - 7
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Request a sales quoteBioactive Compounds: Health Benefits and Potential Applications provides information about different bioactive compounds including their sources, biological effects, health benefits and, potential applications which could contribute as alternatives in the prevention or treatment of multifactorial diseases for vulnerable population groups. Going beyond the basics to include discussion of bioaccessibility and the legislative aspects of marketing of bioactive compounds as nutraceuticals or food supplements, this book presents insights from a global perspective.
Written for researchers, professors and graduate students, this book is sure to be a welcomed reference for all who work in food chemistry, new product development and nutritional science.
- Highlights potential contributions of bioactive compounds as alternatives in the prevention or treatment of disease
- Investigates the world of bioactive compounds and the many activities associated with them
- Contains information relevant to food chemistry, new product development and nutritional science
Researchers, professors and graduate students in health and food science who specialize in food chemistry, new product development or nutritional science
- No. of pages: 308
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 1, 2018
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128147740
- eBook ISBN: 9780128147757
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Maira Rubi Segura Campos
Maira Rubi Segura Campos is the lead research professor at the Faculty of Chemistry Engineering and the coordinator of the Institutional Postgraduate in Chemical and Biochemical Sciences at the Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mérida, Mexico. She has authored 115 articles in national and international journals, 61 book chapters, 12 books, and 41 memoirs. She has also taught more than 170 courses at the pre-and postgraduate level and has actively participated in 170 national and international academic events.
Affiliations and expertise
Food Science Laboratory, Chemical Engineering Faculty, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatan, Mérida, MexicoRead Bioactive Compounds on ScienceDirect