Emerging bioresources with nutraceutical and pharmaceutical prospects
This book introduces some emerging functional foods that are natural resources with tremendous promise as nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals. The author considers biodiversity and bioprospecting as a response to food security issues, drug-resistance, nutrition-poor diets and other problems, explorin...
| Main Author: | Patel, Seema, |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Heidelberg [Germany] :
Springer,
[2015]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource : color illustrations. |
| Series: |
Applied environmental science and engineering for a sustainable future.
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| Subjects: |
Plants
-- Nutrition.
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: An underutilized tropical plant Psidium cattleianum (Strawberry guava)
- Chapter 3: Opuntia fruits as source of inexpensive functional foods
- Chapter 4: Food and pharmaceutical potential of Carissa genus
- Chapter 5: Portulaca oleracea: an untapped bioactive repository for health amelioration
- Chapter 6: Grape seeds: Agro-industrial waste with vast functional food potential
- Chapter 7: Newest and robust entrant to the functional food sector: Chia seeds
- Chapter 8: Prosopis genus as food and drug repository: Exploring the literature databases
- Chapter 9: Resurgence of interest in ancient grain quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa): An appraisal
- Chapter 10: A promising CAM therapeutic for multiple cancers: Milk thistle (Silybum)
- Chapter 11: Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) mushroom: Nutraceutical assessment based on latest findings.