Sustainable Development and Policies: Active Ageing Policies

Dear Colleagues,

The purpose of this Special Issue is to explore the relationship between the use of bioactive compounds in functional food and healthy aging.

Plants are valuable sources of various bioactive compounds that exhibit a broad spectrum of health-promoting effects. Many studies have been focused on the chemical composition of with an eye to increasing their nutritional value.

Throughout the ages, humans have relied on nature for their basic needs, for the production of food additives, flavors, fragrances, medicines, supplements, cosmetics, and other substances. Nowadays, there are many innovative methods for evaluating the antioxidant, anti-microbial, anti-fungi, and anti-diabetic activity of different secondary metabolites that have been extracted from various plants. The commercial importance of these secondary metabolites has resulted in great interest in their production and in exploring the possibilities of enhancing their production. A plethora of studies have demonstrated their protective role against oxidative stress, systemic inflammation, sarcopenia, cardiometabolic diseases and cancer. In other words, bioactive compounds have been demonstrated to have beneficial effects for consumers and can serve as an essential component of daily diet in order to promote healthy aging.

Phyto-compounds are known to play a major role in the adaptation of plants to their environment, but they also represent an important source of pharmaceuticals. The use of plants and their extracts for the preparation of herbal drugs provided the foundation of modern therapeutic sciences and thus enabled man to establish the empirical system of medicine. Moreover, medicinal plants are defined as any plant that has compounds that can be used for therapeutic purposes or contains the precursors of chemo-pharmaceutical synthesis.

Dr. Sousana Papadopoulou
Dr. Anastasia E. Giannakoula
Guest Editors

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• plant foods
• bioactive compounds
• pharmaceutical
• phytocompounds
• food additives
• antioxidants
• secondary metabolites
• plant extract
• sarcopenia
• diseases
• healthy diet