Top Research Papers on Nutraceuticals

An association between food habits and the individual lifestyle with neurodegeneration has been manifested, thereby proposing the role of nutraceuticals as prophylactic treatment for neurological interventions.

This book discusses and explains important bio-active components in specific groups of functional foods and/or nutraceuticals that are responsible for the health benefits they offer. It details the different formulations of functional foods and nutraceutical products.

As they are rich in salutary bioactive compounds and beneficially impact various health outcomes, nuts can be considered natural pleiotropic nutraceuticals.

Mushroom or ERG consumption seems to provide significant prevention against oxidative stress in a large variety of systems, and it may have value as a nutraceutical and antioxidant more generally.

This review aims to discuss the current literature on four natural bioactive extracts mostly characterized by a specific polyphenolic profile, and reports that natural antioxidants may contribute to improving the compliance of patients undergoing anticancer treatment.

An understanding of the key drivers of the nutr pharmaceutical market alongside a consistent and well-defined regulatory framework will provide further opportunities for growth, expansion, and segmentation of nutraceuticals applications.

In recent years, functional foods have gained attention for their potential health benefits beyond basic nutrition, serving as rich sources of proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, and dietary fiber. Enriched with bioactive compounds such as polyphenols, tannins, flavonoids, and alkaloids, these foods have shown promise in inhibiting cell signaling pathways related to proliferation, communication, and apoptosis. Key components in functional foods offer health benefits. Omega-3 fatty acids scavenge free radicals, reducing the risk of chronic diseases like heart disease and cancer. Antioxidants in ...

This review comprehensively covers the analysis ofAlginate and discussed the potential applications of alginate in the food industry and nutraceuticals.

This review provides an overview of central issues on paraprobiotics and highlights the urgent need for further studies aimed at assessing safety and efficacy of these products and their mechanisms of action in order to support decisions of regulatory authorities.

This reviews aims to give an evidence-based perspective of probiotic safety, focusing on probiotic fruit beverages and nutraceuticals, by providing documented clinical case reports and studies.

Anti-obesity effect of Fx is the most well-studied and most promising effect and is primarily based on the upregulation of thermogenesis by uncoupling protein 1 expression and the increase in the metabolic rate induced by mitochondrial activation.

Current evidence suggests that some clinically tested lipid-lowering nutraceuticals could be safely used to improve plasma lipid levels in subjects affected by mild-to-moderate dyslipidaemia with low cardiovascular risk.

SUMMARYSelenium (Se) is an essential trace element with diverse physiological functions related to cellular homoeostasis, body metabolism and antioxidant defence. Se is an integral constituent of at least 25 selenoproteins in the body that regulate cellular redox and antioxidant defence enzymes systems control free radicles of reactive oxygen species . Dietary Se plays key role in immunity, growth and fertility in chickens, which require optimum levels in their diets to maintain high reproductive and productive performance of birds. In the last decade, dietary supplementation with selenium nan...

The primary objective of this work is to explore the synergy between nature and nanotechnology, encompassing a wide range of research aimed at encapsulating natural therapeutic molecules within LNPs.

Flavonols are one of the most promising class of bioactive compounds belonging to the broad family of the flavonoids, characterized by a unique set of features in their basic chemical skeleton and several specific substitutions in selected position of the rings A, B and C. This interesting class of phytochemicals includes compounds such as quercetin, kaempferol, myricetin, rhamnetin, morin, fisetin, galagin, azaleatin and their respective glycosyl derivatives. They have been identified in several foods and provide them great health benefits. This review updates and integrates, in a critical fa...

The latest key findings that show the therapeutic action of nutraceutical’s bioactive molecules on various diseases have also been discussed and confirmed the exponential growth ofNutraceuticals’ market value.

The current relevance of functional foods in human health and well-being has led to an increased interest in developing new types of oral administration systems for probiotics and nutraceuticals. Encapsulation may provide protection and sustained delivery in food formulations. The recent discussions about probiotics encapsulation for application in both nutraceutical and food sectors are addressed. The topics approached include encapsulation systems, nutraceuticals and probiotics concepts and current market situation, microbial microencapsulation, and food applications for beyond their use in ...

The oceans have been the Earth's most valuable source of food. They have now also become a valuable and versatile source of bioactive compounds. The significance of marine organisms as a natural source of new substances that may contribute to the food sector and the overall health of humans are expanding. This review is an update on the recent studies of functional seafood compounds (chitin and chitosan, pigments from algae, fish lipids and omega-3 fatty acids, essential amino acids and bioactive proteins/peptides, polysaccharides, phenolic compounds, and minerals) focusing on their potential ...

The nutritional aspects, rich phytochemistry and health-promoting effects of amla, a tree native to the India and Southeast Asia regions that produces fruits rich in bioactive compounds, are highlighted.

Various aspects of nanoliposomes, in comparison with tocosomes, are reviewed, including the ingredients used in their manufacture, formation mechanisms and issues pertaining to their application in the formulation of health promoting dietary supplements and functional food products.