Research on Extraction of Functional Ingredients from Foods and Evaluation of Bioactivity, Antioxidative, and Antibacterial Properties

A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutraceuticals, Functional Foods, and Novel Foods".

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Laboratory of Functional Food, Food and Nutrition Graduate Program, Federal University of State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro 22290-250, Brazil
Interests: bioactive compounds; functional foods; food development; carotenoids; phenolic compounds
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Departamento de Bromatologia (MBO), Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil
Interests: organogel; lipid oxidation; frying process; fat replacers; in vitro digestion

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Embrapa Agroindústria de Alimentos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Interests: bioactive compounds; nutritional quality of foods; food-to-food fortification; food analysis by HPLC; adding value to agricultural products

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The study of the association between diet and health has grown progressively and significantly in recent years. This research area is attracting attention because of the wide diversity of bioactive components found in foods and the different pathways of action involved in preventing different health conditions. Researchers have also been able to explore minor food ingredients and metabolites with high bioactivity and their mechanisms of action through recent developments in extraction methods, analytical techniques, and bioactivity assays.

A Special Issue is being planned to be published in Foods that focuses on the bioactivities of food phytochemicals. This Special Issue will offer a general review of current knowledge about the existence of phytochemicals in foods and their function in the treatment or prevention of various diseases. The aim of this Special Issue is to showcase original research articles and reviews describing current findings on therapeutically promising food bioactive compounds. We invite authors to submit articles that explore different aspects of the bioactivities of bioactive compounds in foods.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Bioactive potential of food components;
  • Mechanism of action of bioactive compounds;
  • Novel methods to identify the role of bioactive compounds in foods;
  • Food components in the regulation of pro- and anti-inflammatory pathways;
  • Food bioactive compounds in antimicrobial activities and food control;
  • Food bioactive compounds as therapeutic agents in health.

We look forward to receiving your submission.

Dr. Anderson Junger Teodoro
Guest Editor

Dr. Vanessa Naciuk Castelo-Branco
Prof. Dr. Renata Galhardo Borguini
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Keywords

  • food bioactive compounds
  • phenolic compounds
  • carotenoids
  • antioxidant activity
  • antibacterial properties
  • green extraction techniques

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Hybrid Fruits for Improving Health—A Comprehensive Review
by Marta A. A. S. Cruz, Pedro P. S. Coimbra, Carlos F. Araújo-Lima, Otniel Freitas-Silva and Anderson J. Teodoro
Foods 2024, 13(2), 219; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13020219 - 10 Jan 2024
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Several species of hybrid fruits, such as citrus, grapes, blueberries, apples, tomatoes, and lingonberries among others, have attracted scientific attention in recent years, especially due to their reported antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. The bagasse, leaves, bark, and seeds of these hybrid fruits have [...] Read more.
Several species of hybrid fruits, such as citrus, grapes, blueberries, apples, tomatoes, and lingonberries among others, have attracted scientific attention in recent years, especially due to their reported antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. The bagasse, leaves, bark, and seeds of these hybrid fruits have large amounts of polyphenols, such as flavonoids, which act as potent antioxidants. Several studies have been carried out in cellular models of neurotoxicity of the extract of these fruits, to document the beneficial effects for human health, as well as to prove its antiproliferative effect in cancer cells. In the present review, through a synthesis of existing information in the scientific literature, we demonstrate that hybrid fruits are a source of antioxidant and bioactive compounds, which act in the inhibition of diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases, and consequently improving human health. Full article
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