Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs
Bioactive Foods in Health Promotion
- 1st Edition - April 23, 2016
- Latest edition
- Editors: Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy
- Language: English
Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs: Bioactive Foods in Health Promotion brings together experts from around the world working on the cutting edge of research on fruit, vegetable… Read more
Description
Description
Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs: Bioactive Foods in Health Promotion brings together experts from around the world working on the cutting edge of research on fruit, vegetables, and herbs in health promotion. Offering a timely, concise, scientific appraisal of the efficacy of key foods to prevent disease and improve the quality of life, Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs: Bioactive Foods in Health Promotion provides valuable evidence-based conclusions and recommendations. This reference text will encourage further research on the potential benefits of fruits and vegetables in health and disease prevention, providing a basis for possible dietary modifications by the government and the public.
Key features
Key features
- Provides insight on bioactive constituents found in fruits and vegetables that can be further studied to improve health and disease resistance or incorporated into other food products and used as alternative medicines and dietary supplements
- Includes valuable information on how fruits are important sources of bioflavonoids and nonnutritive bioactives that modify body functions
- Offers a conclusion or summary of evidence at the end of each chapter to enhance understanding of new approaches in the field
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs: Bioactive Foods in Health Promotion
SECTION 1--OVERVIEW OF FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND HERBS IN HEALTH
1. Socioeconomic inequalities in fruit and vegetable intakes
2. Industrial freezing, cooking and storage differently affect antioxidant nutrients in vegetables
3. Pharmacological properties of some medicinal plants, their components and using fields
4. Nutritional indicators and health aspects of fruit and vegetable consumption in aged adults
5. Diabetes, diabetic complications and flavonoids
6. Curcumin: The epigenetic therapy
7. Nutraceuticalsas therapeutic agents for inflammation
8. Vegetarian diets and disease outcomes
9. Diet and nutrition role in prostate health
SECTION 2--FRUIT AND HEALTH AND DISEASES
10. Advances in the study of the health benefits and mechanism of actions of the pulp and seed of the Amazonian palm fruit, Euterpe oleracea Mart., known as "Açai"
11. Grape bioactives for human health
12. Kiwifruit and health
13. Cocoa--Past medicinal uses, current scientific evidence, and advertised health benefits
14. Pomegranate juice and extract
15. Berries and blood pressure
SECTION 3--VEGETABLES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
16. Poi history, uses and role in health
17. Bioactive potential of two wild edible mushrooms of the Western Ghats of India
SECTION 4--HERBS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
18. Nutrient profile, bioactive components and functional properties of okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench)
19. Fruits and vegetable consumption patterns, barriers, and federal nutrition assistance programs in the U.S.
20. Dietary fiber and health: Cardiovascular disease and beyond
21. Fruits, vegetables, and herbs: Bioactive foods promoting wound healing
22. Curcumin in Hepatic Stellate Cell Activation in health
23. Curcumin against amyloid pathology in mental health and brain composition
24. Recent developments in using plant derived natural products as tubulin inhibitors for the management of cancer
25. Medicinal and nutritional qualities of Zingiber officinale'
26. Antimicrobials from herbs, spices and plants
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: April 23, 2016
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
RW
Ronald Ross Watson
VP
Victor R. Preedy
Victor R. Preedy, BSc, PhD, DSc, FRSB, FRSPH, FRCPath, FRSC, FRSM, is Professor of Clinical Biochemistry (Hon) at King’s College Hospital and Emeritus Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at King’s College London. He also holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Suffolk and served as the long‑term Director of the Genomics Centre at King’s College London from 2006 to 2020. Professor Preedy graduated with an Honours Degree in Biology and Physiology with Pharmacology and later obtained his PhD from the University of London. He subsequently received Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists and later earned his second doctorate (DSc) in recognition of his contributions to protein metabolism. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Royal Society of Biology, the Royal College of Pathologists, the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, the Royal Society for Public Health, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Preedy has conducted research while affiliated with Imperial College London, the School of Pharmacy (now part of University College London), and the MRC Centre at Northwick Park Hospital. He has collaborated widely with international research groups in Finland, Japan, Australia, the USA, and Germany. His longstanding academic interests include health and well‑being. He has published more than 750 works, including peer‑reviewed research articles, abstracts, symposium presentations, reviews, and edited books.