Food Supplements and Nutraceuticals: Current Evidence and Future Perspectives in Human Health

Dear Colleagues,

Food supplements are designed to maintain health and promote recovery from physiological conditions. Their use is consistent with preserving a psychophysiological state free of sickness rather than intervening in the case of illness. Such a preventive approach is much more effective and cheaper compared with that of a cure, and this is even more so the case for nutraceuticals, which can be used to prevent disease and recover from subclinical conditions. Despite this, the concept of using nutraceuticals for such purposes is not yet shared by the scientific community and government bodies.

This Special Issue aims to investigate the role of food supplements on human health and to deepen understanding of the role of nutraceuticals. Submissions in the form of original research articles, reviews, perspectives, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses on the use nutraceuticals, functional foods or food supplements and their role in food nutrition. We encourage submissions of manuscripts regarding nutritional and functional properties of foods and food supplements.

Dr. Gianluca Rizzo
Prof. Dr. Gioacchino Calapai
Guest Editors

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