Bioactive Compounds and Antioxidants in Fruits and Vegetables

Dear Colleagues,

The growing number of scientific studies conducted to demonstrate the functional and healthy properties of pools of bioactive molecules extracted from plant matrices and their waste is now known. In particular, scientific studies provide strong evidence that polyphenols are involved in different pathways favoring a potential beneficial effect on diseases such as obesity, dyslipidemia, blood pressure, and blood sugar and associated complications (oxidative stress and inflammation). However, despite an exorbitant number of research, overall, the evidence provided to establish a cause-and-effect relationship between polyphenols and their health effect is not sufficient.

In this Special Issue, we invite the scientific community (chemists, pharmacologists, biochemists, drug chemists, and toxicologists) to provide original papers, clinical reports, and review articles to understand and rationalize the potential beneficial effects of polyphenols on consumer health.

The focus of this Special Issue is to gather interdisciplinary expertise with the aim of building factual understanding that can be translated through industrial work into health benefits.

Dr. Marilena Muraglia
Dr. Filomena Corbo
Guest Editors

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