Plant Science & Botany

Innovations in Plant Science for Better Health: From Soil to Fork

Human Health Benefits of Plant Bioactive Compounds
Potentials and Prospects

Editors: Megh R. Goyal, PhD
Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria, PhD

Human Health Benefits of Plant Bioactive Compounds

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: August 2019
Hardback Price: see ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781771887397
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-77463-423-3
E-Book ISBN: 9780429457913
Pages: 396p w/Index
Binding Type: hardbound / ebook / paperback
Series: Innovations in Plant Science for Better Health: From Soil to Fork
Notes: 5 color and 16 b/w illustrations

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Human Health Benefits of Plant Bioactive Compounds: Potentials and Prospects focuses on the importance of functional foods and their secondary metabolites for human health, presenting new insights with scientific evidence on the use of functional foods in the treatment of certain diseases. The plants covered and their bioactive compounds are easily accessible and are believed to be effective with fewer side effects in comparison with modern drugs in the treatment of different diseases. They contain chemical compounds that can modify and modulate biological systems, eliciting therapeutic effects. Some plants and derived products mentioned include black carrot, olive oil, citrus peel, grapes, candy leaf, cereals and grains, and green and black tea.

The volume is divided into four sections that cover these topics:
  • Functional foods for human health, which discusses the concept of functional foods, the available sources, biochemistry, structural composition, and different biological activities, especially antioxidant activity. It also highlights the importance of functional foods and their health perspectives.
  • Pharmacological aspects of fruits and vegetables, which focuses on the extraction of bioactive molecules, phytochemistry, and biological activities of a selection of plants.
  • Pharmacological aspects of natural products, which explores bioactive compounds, structural attributes, bioactivity of anthocyanin, piceatannol, and a review of the ethnobotany/and medicinal properties of green and black tea.
  • Pharmacological aspects of cereals and grains, which reviews the health benefits of flax seed, wheatgrass juice, and use and therapeutic potential as supplements for various disease management.
This compendium sheds new light on the potential of functional foods for human health and contributes to the ocean of knowledge on food science and technology. It will be valuable for faculty, students, and researchers as well as those working in the food, nutraceuticals, and herbal industries.

CONTENTS:
Preface

PART I: FUNCTIONAL FOODS FOR HUMAN HEALTH
1. Functional Foods: Concepts and Their Health Perspectives
Aamir Shehzad, Asna Zahid, Sana Mahmood, and Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria

2. Plant-Based Functional Foods for Human Nutrition: Current Trends, Future Perspectives, and Phytochemical Attributes
Muhammad Sohaib, Ayesha Zafar, and Azmat Ullah Khan

3. Natural or Synthetic Antioxidants in Foods
Tosin Michael Olajide, Md. Ramim Tanver Rahman, Zaixiang Lou, and Jing Qi

PART II: PHARMACOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
4. Heath Benefits of Anthocyanins in Black Carrot (Daucus carota)
Iahtisham-Ul-Haq, Masood Sadiq Butt, Aneela Shamshad, and Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria

5. Olive Oil Phenols: Chemistry, Synthesis, Metabolism, Fats, and Their Allied Health Claims
Muhammad Imran, Faqir Muhammad Anjum, Shinawar Waseem Ali, Iahtisham-Ul-Haq, and Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria

6. Phytochemicals from Citrus Peel: Perspectives and Allied Health Claims
Humaira Ashraf, Iahtisham-Ul-Haq, Masood Sadiq Butt, Mir Muhammad Nasir Qayyum, and Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria

7. Phytochemistry of Grapes (Vitis vinifera L.): Functional and Nutraceutical Attributes
Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria, Farhan Saeed, Tabussam Tufail, Saira Sultan, and Hafsa Daud

PART III: PHARMACOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF NATURAL PRODUCTS
8. Piceatannol: A Review of Natural Sources, Extraction Methods, and Biological Activities
Juliane Viganó, Andressa Mara Baseggio, Larissa Akemi Kido, and Julian Martínez

9. Plant-Based Neurotoxins: Impact on Neural Pathologies
Seema Patel, Girish Kumar Gupta, Abdur Rauf, Haroon Khan, and Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria

10. Health Benefits of Candy Leaf (Stevia rebaudiana): Physiological and Pharmacological Actions
Zubaria Ishaq, Haneen Fatima Kirmani, Munawar Abbas, and Farhan Saeed

PART IV: PHARMACOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CEREALS, GRAINS, AND TEA
11. Wheatgrass Juice: A Nutritional Weapon against Various Maladies
Tabussam Tufail, Farhan Saeed, Muhammad Afzaal, and Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria

12. Flaxseed: Shield against Life-Style-Related Maladies
Huma Bader-Ul-Ain, Munawar Abbas, Farhan Saeed, and Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria

13. Green Tea for Human Health Benefits: Phytonutrients and Their Therapeutic Potential
Faiza Ashfaq, Masood Sadiq Butt, Ahmad Bilal, Mir Muhammad Nasir Qayyum, and Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria

14. Black Tea Polyphenols: Health-Endorsing Perspectives, A Mechanistic Appraisal
Ali Imran, Muhammad Umair Arshad, Muhammad Sajid Arshad, and Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Megh R. Goyal, PhD
Retired Professor in Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Senior Acquisitions Editor, Biomedical Engineering and Agricultural Science, Apple Academic Press, Inc.

Megh R. Goyal, PhD, PE, is a Retired Professor in Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering from the General Engineering Department in the College of Engineering at University of Puerto Rico–Mayaguez Campus; and Senior Acquisitions Editor and Senior Technical Editor-in-Chief in Agriculture and Biomedical Engineering for Apple Academic Press Inc. He has worked as a Soil Conservation Inspector and as a Research Assistant at Haryana Agricultural University and Ohio State University. He was the first agricultural engineer to receive the professional license in Agricultural Engineering in 1986 from the College of Engineers and Surveyors of Puerto Rico. On September 16, 2005, he was proclaimed as “Father of Irrigation Engineering in Puerto Rico for the twentieth century” by the ASABE, Puerto Rico Section, for his pioneering work on micro irrigation, evapotranspiration, agroclimatology, and soil and water engineering. During his professional career of 45 years, he has received many prestigious awards. A prolific author and editor, he has written more than 200 journal articles and textbooks and has edited over 25 books. He received his BSc degree in engineering from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India; his MSc and PhD degrees from Ohio State University, Columbus; and his Master of Divinity degree from Puerto Rico Evangelical Seminary, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, USA.

Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria, PhD
Honorary Fellow, Diamantina Institute, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Australia

Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria, PhD, is currently working as Honorary Fellow in the Diamantina Institute, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Australia. Dr. Hafiz Suleria has published more than 30 peer-reviewed scientific papers in different reputed/impacted journals. He is also in collaboration with more than five universities where he is working as a co-supervisor/special member for PhD and Postgraduate students and also involved in joint publications, projects and grants. Previously, he has been awarded an International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) and Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) for his PhD research at UQ School of Medicine, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) in collaboration with Commonwealth and Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO, Australia). During his PhD candidacy, he received several awards, travel grants, funding for national and international trainings, and conferences and had the opportunity to patent and publish his PhD research outcomes, “Bioactive compounds from Australian blacklip abalone (Haliotis rubra) processing waste.” Before joining the UQ, he worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Food Sciences, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan. He also worked as a Research Associate in PAK-US Joint Project funded by the Higher Education Commission, Pakistan and Department of State, USA, with collaboration of the University of Massachusetts, USA, and the National Institute of Food Science and Technology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan.




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