Functional Beverages, from Idea to Functionality
A special issue of Beverages (ISSN 2306-5710).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2019) | Viewed by 65896
Special Issue Editors
2. Functional Foods and Nutrition Research (FFNR) Laboratory, University of Canberra, Ngunnawal Land, Canberra 2617, ACT, Australia
3. University of Canberra Research Institute for Sport and Exercise (UCRISE), Canberra 2617, ACT, Australia
4. Discipline of Nutrition-Dietetics, Harokopio University, 17671 Athens, Greece
Interests: green tea; plant polyphenols; catechins; EGCG; bioactives; nutrition; the effects of resveratrol supplementation on obesity in humans; plant bioactives; nutraceuticals
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Interests: cocoa; diabetes; cardiovascular risk; obesity; evidence based medicine
Interests: Probiotics; prebiotics; dairy products and food quality and safety
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The original idea of health-promoting foods and beverages is several millennia old, and many different cultures worldwide have practiced the development of beverages with nutraceutical properties. Nowadays, there is an increasing demand, not only for foods as ‘whole foods’, but also for the use of individual and isolated ingredients in the form of purified compounds. In Western society, use of functional beverages is a relatively new concept, and it is predominately orientated towards the fortification/addition of ingredients that can exhibit potential beneficial health effects. Several studies have already identified (or are still under investigation) the beneficial uses of these beverages and have influenced the beverages industry towards mass-scale production.
Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue, “Functional Beverages, from Idea to Functionality” is to compile recent high-quality research manuscripts (letters to the editor, original research and review papers) on functional beverages, covering topics from the generation of ideas, stability studies to animal and human trials, as well as any other functional applications of these types of beverages. This Special Issue is expected to provide up-to-date information on all aspects of research in functional beverages with a main emphasis on potential health benefits.
Dr. Nenad NaumovskiDr. Duane Mellor
Dr. Senaka Ranadheera
Guest Editors
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