Potential Health Benefits of Fruits and Vegetables III

Dear Colleagues,

I invite you to contribute to a Special Issue of the journal Applied Sciences titled “Potential Health Benefits of Fruits and Vegetables III”, which aims to present recent findings on the relationship between fruits and vegetables and the prevention of disease occurrence.

As plant-based foods, both vegetables and fruits have been clearly associated with the presence of high amounts of bioactive compounds, and have been demonstrated as having a central role in the prevention of disease. Many scientists from different research fields have made great efforts, both to characterize the bioactive compounds’ compositions and to deepen our understanding regarding the mechanisms of action through which fruits and vegetables exert their health-promoting and/or disease-preventing properties. In this Special Issue, studies on the bioactive compound composition of the main fruit and vegetable species; on their health effects as freshly consumed, transformed products or applied in vitro models; and on their mechanisms of actions against human pathologies will be welcome.

Dr. Luca Mazzoni
Dr. Franco Capocasa
Dr. Maria Teresa Ariza Fernández
Guest Editors

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