Bioactives in Fruit (eBook, ePUB)

Health Benefits and Functional Foods
Redaktion: Skinner, Margot; Hunter, Denise

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For centuries we have known that fruit is important for health, but we are only just beginning to fully understand why. Bioactives in Fruit: Health Benefits and Functional Foods aims to summarise some of our current knowledge on the bioactive compounds that are associated with the health benefits of specific fruits with a strong emphasis on the validation of health benefits by human intervention trials. Reflecting the current interest in food and health, the book includes strategies to retain and enhance the bioactives in fruit through breeding, growing conditions, fruit storage, processing into ingredients and production of functional foods. To accomplish this task authors with expertise in biology, chemistry, pharmacology, food science, nutrition, medicine, and horticulture have contributed. They come from universities, government and industry funded research institutes and biotechnology and food companies in Europe, the United States, Asia and New Zealand to give the book a broad perspective. This book, describing fruit bioactives, their health benefits when consumed as a food and related topics regarding their development into fresh or processed functional foods, will be of use to postgraduate students, researchers, functional food product developers, food regulators and anyone who has curiosity about why fruit is good for you. The information contained within will provide plant breeders with new targets for the development of value-added horticultural products, and will also provide nutritionists and dieticians with a useful resource for developing strategies to assist in preventing or slowing disease onset or severity. Bioactives in Fruit: Health Benefits and Functional Foods is a major resource which will be required reading for anyone working in the fields of health and functional foods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118635599
• Artikelnr.: 39054595

Autorenporträt

Margot Skinner is a Professor in Food Science, School of Chemical Sciences and Institute of Plant and Food Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Denise Hunter is a Research Scientist in Food Innovation at Plant & Food Research Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors xv Preface xxi 1 Introduction to the Major Classes of
Bioactives Present in Fruit 1 2 Fibre in Fruit 19 3 Bioavailability of
Antioxidant Compounds from Fruits 35 4 Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic
Interaction of Functional Foods with Medicines 59 5 Health Properties of
Apple and Pear 81 6 Orange and Grapefruit Bioactive Compounds, Health
Benefits and Other Attributes 101 7 Health Benefits from Pomegranates and
Stone Fruit, Including Plums, Peaches, Apricots and Cherries 125 8 The
Potential Health Benefits of the Subtropical Fruits Kiwifruit, Feijoa and
Tamarillo 169 9 Effect of Health-promoting Properties of Grapes, Including
Resveratrol 197 10 Potential Health Benefits of Blackcurrants 215 11
Overview of the Health Properties of Blueberries 251 12 Cranberry
Polyphenols in the Promotion of Urinary Tract, Cardiovascular and Emerging
Health Areas 273 13 Vegetable Fruits: A Cornucopia of Health Benefits 293
14 Potential Health Benefits of Avocados 337 15 Cardiovascular Benefits of
Olive Oil: Beyond Effects of Fat Content 353 16 Cocoa, Blood Flow and the
Brain 367 17 Breeding for Enhanced Bioactives in Berry Fruit 389 18 The
Influence of Pre- and Postharvest Environmental Stress on Fruit Bioactives
409 19 Recovery of Valuable Bioactives from Residues Arising from Fruit
Processing 429 20 Stability and Bioaccessibility of Fruit Bioactives in
Foods: Food Component Interactions and Matrix Effect 467 Index 509