Nutraceuticals: The New Frontier
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2018) | Viewed by 82785
Special Issue Editor
Interests: food chemistry; safety; food safety; food supplements and functional foods; nutraceuticals; sustainability; novel foods; nano-nutraceuticals; recovery from byproducts of the agri-food area; formulation and assessing of novel nutraceuticals; food contaminants; contaminants; risk assessment; mycotoxins and secondary metabolites; chemistry and food education
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Dear Colleagues,
Well-being is, nowadays, gaining growing attention from people, researchers, and physicians. The main goal is to prevent the onset of pathologic health issues instead of using conventional pharmacological approach unless absolutely necessary. Prevention and well-being are closely linked to the wrong lifestyle and dietary habits, which can determine the onset of illness. Some health conditions can be prevented and treated with the use of nutraceuticals in daily diet. Nutraceuticals are pharmacologically active substances that can be extracted from vegetable or animal products, and concentrated and administered in a suitable pharmaceutical form. A nutraceutical can provide health beneficial effects, e.g., the prevention and/or, in some cases, the treatment of disease. The key aspect is to define the range of possible uses for these new food-drugs and substantiate it with in vitro and in vivo clinical data that supports the efficacy, safety, and health benefits obtained. This Special Issue is dedicated to assess the sources, composition, formulation, use, experience in clinical use, mechanisms of action, and clinical data of nutraceuticals, which represent a new horizon for therapy and, at the same time, a valuable tool to reduce the cost of the health care system, addressing resources for the prevention rather than that of pharmacological therapy.
Prof. Dr. Antonello Santini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- food
- health
- nutraceuticals
- prevention
- therapy
- clinical data
- in vivo data
- in vitro data
- therapeutic agents
- clinical experience
- formulation
- sources
- analytical aspects
- mechanism of action
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