Emerging Bioresources with Nutraceutical and Pharmaceutical Prospects

• Main Author: Patel, Seema (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Applied Environmental Science and Engineering for a Sustainable Future
• Subjects: Environment.; Nature conservation.; Environmental engineering.; Biotechnology.; Sustainable development.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology.; Nature Conservation.

This book introduces some emerging functional foods that are natural resources with tremendous promise as nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals. The author considers biodiversity and bioprospecting as a response to food security issues, drug-resistance, nutrition-poor diets and other problems, explorin...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: An underutilized tropical plant Psidium cattleianum (Strawberry guava)
• Chapter 3: Opuntia fruits as source of inexpensive functional foods
• Chapter 4: Food and pharmaceutical potential of Carissa genus
• Chapter 5: Portulaca oleracea: an untapped bioactive repository for health amelioration
• Chapter 6: Grape seeds: Agro-industrial waste with vast functional food potential
• Chapter 7: Newest and robust entrant to the functional food sector: Chia seeds
• Chapter 8: Prosopis genus as food and drug repository: Exploring the literature databases
• Chapter 9: Resurgence of interest in ancient grain quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa): An appraisal
• Chapter 10: A promising CAM therapeutic for multiple cancers: Milk thistle (Silybum)
• Chapter 11: Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) mushroom: Nutraceutical assessment based on latest findings.