Plant tissues as a source of nutraceutical compounds: fruit seeds, leaves, flowers and steams
Plants have a huge role in human health and nutrition since ancient time, when man started to build sedentary societies. Man started to domesticate plants to use them as food, and eventually realized that some plant tissues had beneficial properties against diverse illness and problems they faced...
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| Language: | English |
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Apple Academic Press / CRC Press
2018
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| Online Access: | https://www.crcpress.com/Plant-Food-By-Products-Industrial-Relevance-for-Food-Additives-and-Nutraceuticals/Ayala-Zavala-Gonzalez-Aguilar-Siddiqui/p/book/9781771886406 |
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| Summary: | Plants have a huge role in human health and nutrition since ancient time,
when man started to build sedentary societies. Man started to domesticate
plants to use them as food, and eventually realized that some plant tissues
had beneficial properties against diverse illness and problems they faced at
the time. Nowadays, scientific research had exhaustively studied thousands
of different plant tissues, from fruit seeds to flowers and stems. Scientific
data now have identified that most of the chemical compounds in plants,
also known as phytochemicals, involved in the color and texture of diverse
plant tissues are responsible for many of the benefits that its consumption
may bring to humans. In that sense, the diverse colors, shapes, and textures
of plant tissues may be key points to consider at the time of looking for
the right phytochemical to use in food products. The growing demand on
economic and healthy food products leads the food industry to the exploitation
and development of novel functional foods and nutraceutical products.
In order that as the content of phytochemicals such as polyphenols, dietary
fiber, carotenoids, free fatty acids, and vitamins in plant tissues may vary
from one species to another, it is essential to analyze the common origin of
each phytochemical compound from one plant tissue to another. Hence, this
chapter summarizes the most common phytochemicals considered as nutraceutical
compounds, its related health benefits, and the diverse plant tissues
where we could find a specific type of phytochemical |
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