Natural Food Ingredients for Human Health: New Insights from a Metabolic Perspective
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemicals and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2022) | Viewed by 25765
Special Issue Editors
2. CIBERobn Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Interests: polyphenols; polyphenol bioavailability; polyphenol metabolites; resveratrol; quercetin; NAFLD; obesity; type 2 diabetes
2. CIBERobn Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Interests: polyphenols; polyphenol bioavailability; polyphenol metabolites; resveratrol; quercetin; NAFLD; obesity; type 2 diabetes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, great attention has been paid to natural food ingredients due to their positive effects on health. Some ingredients, such as vitamins, minerals, polyphenols, probiotics, prebiotics and omega 3, among others, are naturally present in foodstuffs. They show beneficial effects on various physiological and biochemical processes, and thus, their use represents a potential tool for the prevention or treatment of highly prevalent diseases in our society, such as cardiovascular diseases, obesity, cancer or diabetes, among others. Although several beneficial effects have been described for human beings, others have only been established in preclinical studies so far. Furthermore, generally, not all key aspects are already well known. For these and other reasons, it is mandatory to continue with scientific research in this field. Indeed, new knowledge concerning these issues could enable the development of novel functional foods or nutraceuticals incorporating these ingredients, which should be suitable for preventing or treating several important diseases.
It is our great pleasure to invite researchers to provide manuscripts either describing original research or providing an up-to-date review of the scientific literature for a Special Issue of Nutrients on “Natural Food Ingredients for Human Health: New Insights from a Metabolic Perspective”. Very welcome will be manuscripts that present recent advances in the knowledge on natural food ingredients’ effects on health, including but not limited to the better understanding of their mechanisms of action, dose-response patterns, bioavailability enhancement strategies, and the study of population-group specific effects, among others.
Dr. Leixuri Aguirre
Dr. Itziar Eseberri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Bioactive compounds
- Benefits on health
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Cancer
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Mechanisms of action
- Bioavailability
- Dose-response
- Additive effects
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