Nutraceutical Components of Plants and Plant Seeds

Dear Colleagues, 

Globally, today’s society faces what is known as the “health trilemma”, which tells us that food, human health, and the environment are closely linked, and it is necessary to establish a balance among them to achieve a healthier life on a more sustainable planet. 

The increase and promotion of the consumption of local plant-based foods (grains, legumes, fruits, and vegetables), and in particular those with nutraceutical components, is one of the crucial factors contributing to the solution of the above-mentioned trilemma. 

Nutritional and epidemiological studies have shown that plants and plant seeds are an abundant source of nutraceuticals components having health-promoting and disease-preventing properties. 

This Special Issue of Foods will focus on “Nutraceutical Components of Plants and Plant Seeds”. We are open to contributions (original research papers and high quality reviews), covering challenges and achievements in the study of the content and bioavailability of phytochemicals from plants and plant seeds that have healthy properties and are present in plants and plant seeds. 

Likewise, this Special Issue would like to point the attention to the ongoing research activities dealing with the valorization as new functional foods of neglected and underutilized crops with nutraceutical components. 

Other studies related to the effect of conventional and organic farming on the content and bioavailability of nutraceuticals will also be welcome in this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Antonio De Haro Bailón
Dr. Fernando Cámara-Martos
Guest Editors

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