Dietary Phytochemicals and Chronic Diseases
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemicals and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 March 2024) | Viewed by 11556
Special Issue Editor
2. Interdepartmental Research Centre “Nutraceuticals and Food for Health (NUTRAFOOD)”, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Interests: cardiovascular; aging; citrus; glucosinolate; hydrogen sulfide; pharmaceutical development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
During the past decades, the exploration of the relationship between dietary phytochemicals and chronic disease prevention has emerged as an important topic, and nowadays, a great number of pieces of preclinical and clinical evidence have been collected. Indeed, the adherence to a healthy diet (i.e., Mediterranean) or the supplementation of a diet with micronutrients (vitamins or minerals) or products that are isolated from vegetables (including phytosterols, carotenoids or flavonoids) or foods (such as cacao or extra-virgin olive oil) may contribute to health and to the prevention of chronic diseases, including cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases as well as cancer. Moreover, the development of innovative and green extractive techniques recently gained great attention, first to minimize the by-products of the food chain and then to possibly improve the bioavailability of the bioactive phytochemicals.
This Special Issue calls for original research as well as review articles and meta-analyses in which a non-traditional use of phytochemicals is taken into consideration. The contributions of high-quality research based on the identification of new insights into cellular and molecular mechanisms and the evaluation in vitro or in vivo as well as in human effectiveness in conditions that are not yet considered pathological are welcome.
Dr. Lara Testai
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- dietary supplementation
- nutraceuticals
- healthy diet
- green extraction
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