Nutrition, Dietetics & Health

Nutritional and Health Benefits of Medicinal Plants and Bioactive Compounds
Editors: Ajeet Singh, PhD
Navneet Bithel, PhD

Nutritional and Health Benefits of Medicinal Plants and Bioactive Compounds

In Production
Pub Date: Forthcoming February 2025
Hardback Price: $220 US | £170 UK
Hard ISBN: 9781779520036
Pages: Est. 422pp w/index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Notes: 16 color and 60 b/w illustrations

This new volume, Nutritional and Health Benefits of Medicinal Plants and Bioactive Compounds, is in response to the growing consumer popularity regarding the natural bioactive compounds and phytochemicals of plants for used for medicinal and healthy food purposes

The volume first offers an introduction and overview of the nutritional and health benefits of medicinal plants and bioactive compounds and then delves into the various specific nutritional aspects of functional foods and nutraceuticals. The chapters investigate plant-based foods and underutilized fruits as sources of functional food ingredients along; the chemical composition, quality traits, and biological properties of bioactive compounds; mineral nutrition from tropical fruits and vegetables; edible and nutritional mushrooms; food-derived bioactive peptides; cereal-based functional foods, dietary supplements derived from medicinal plants and bioactive compounds, and the encapsulation of natural polyphenols for food and drug applications.

This volume will be helpful to scientists, researchers, faculty and students, nutritionists and others interested in the nutritional and health benefits of medicinal plants and bioactive compounds.

CONTENTS:
Preface

PART I: PHYTOCHEMICALS AND NUTRACEUTICALS: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
1. Phytochemicals and Secondary Metabolites

Garima Pathak

2. Overview of the Health Benefits of Plant-Based Nutrients and Bioactive Compounds
Muhasina K. M., Puja Ghosh, Neelaxi Pandey, Krishna Veni Nagappan, Justin Antony, B. Duraiswamy, and Dhanabal Palaniswamy

3. Synergistic Biological Effects of Crude/Isolated Phytochemicals: Current Update and Future Prospects
Puja Ghosh, Muhasina K. M., Neelaxi Pandey, Justin Antony, Krishna Veni Nagappan, Dhanabal Palaniswamy, and Duraiswamy Basavan

4. Phytochemicals and Crude Drugs: Their Bioavailability and Toxicity
Muhasina K. M, Puja Ghosh, Neelaxi Pandey, Krishna Veni Nagappan, Duraiswamy Basavan, and Dhanabal S. Palaniswamy

5. Functional and Nutraceutical Foods: Health, Nutrition, and Safety Aspects
Upasana and Latika Yadav

PART II: NUTRITIONAL ASPECTS OF FUNCTIONAL FOODS AND NUTRACEUTICALS
6. Plant-Based Foods and Underutilized Fruits as a Source of Functional Food Ingredients: Chemical Composition, Quality Traits, and Biological Properties

Himani Badoni, Sadhna Awasthi, Promila Sharma, Prabhakar Semwal, and Ayushi Chaudhary

7. Mineral Nutrition of Tropical Fruits and Vegetables: An Overview
Neelaxi Pandey, Abhishek Swami, Puja Ghosh, Soumya Agnihotri, and Muhasina K. M.

8. Edible and Nutritional Mushrooms: Health Benefits and Current Status Future Perspectives
Khushbhu Meena, Madhuri Shringirishi, and Saad Khan

9. Low Glycemic Index (GI) Ingredients and Modified Starches in Wheat-Based Food Processing: A Current Status and Future Prospects
Vijay Kumar, Bindu Naik, Saloni Joshi, Sanjay Kumar, and Rakhita

10. Food-Derived Bioactive Peptides in Human Health: Challenges and Opportunities
Srinivasan Kameswaran, Swapna B., Mandala Ramakrishna, Gopi Krishna Pitchika, and P. Sudhakar Reddy

11. Cereal-Based Functional Food: Nutritional and Therapeutic Aspects
Neha Patwa, Nikhil Mehta, Ajeet Singh, Shruti Sharma, and Anita Yadav

12. Functional Foods and Dietary Supplements: Products at the Interface Between Pharma and Nutrition
Poonam Maurya, Neelesh Kumar Maurya, and Divya Pathak

13. Encapsulation of Natural Polyphenols for Food and Drug Applications
Keshav Moharir, Nilambari Gurav, and Shailendra Gurav

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Ajeet Singh, PhD
Research Fellow, Department of Quality and Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Wheat & Barley Research (ICAR-IIWBR) Karnal, Haryana India

Ajeet Singh, PhD, is currently working in the Department of Quality and Basic Sciences at the Indian Institute of Wheat & Barley Research (ICAR-IIWBR) Karnal, Haryana India. Dr. Singh is nominated as Academic Councilor by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) New Delhi, India. He has published more than 70 research, review, and popular articles in reputed peer-reviewed national and international journals as well as several book chapters. He has published (authored/edited) eight books and monographs by the national and international publishers. He is an active reviewer for several national and international journals and is an active life member of various national and international scientific societies. He is also working as an assistant editor and assistant editor of various reputed journals. Dr. Singh earned his MSc in Microbiology at Chaudhary Charan Singh University Meerut, India, and his PhD in Microbiology at Gurukula Kangri University, Haridwar, India. He has awarded a UGC-BSR (University Grants Commission-Basic Scientific Research, New Delhi) fellowship for his PhD program.

Navneet Bithel, PhD
Professor, Department of Botany and Microbiology, Gurukul Kangri University Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India; Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences

Navneet Bithel, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Botany and Microbiology at Gurukul Kangri University Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India, where he was Head of the Department of Botany and Microbiology 2013–2016. He is currently holding the position of Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences and was formerly Dean of Student Welfare and Coordinator for the National Service Scheme of Gurukul Kangri University. He has guided 25 PhD students and is supervising six research students on varied aspects of microbiology. Dr. Bithel has published over 250 research papers and reviews in national and international journals and is a fellow of the Indian Botanical Society and the Indian Phytopathological Society and a life member of several other academic societies. He earned MSc and MPhil degrees and PhD at from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra Haryana, India.




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