Plant bioactive substances

Author: Tang Chuanhe
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: "Plant bioactive substances play a crucial role in maintaining the best health status of the human body. Since the 1990s, a new understanding of plant bioactive substances has represented the arrival of the second 'Golden Age' of nutrition, highlighting their increasing importance as functional factors in functional foods. This book comprehensively and systematically introduces the structure, properties, functions, and mechanisms of action of various plant bioactive substances, including carotenoids, tocopherols and tocotrienols, sterols, flavonoids, anthocyanins, estrogens, proanthocyanidins, tannins, organic sulfides, and saponins. It serves as a reference for scientific and technical personnel engaged in health (functional) foods, natural active products, research and development, and is also suitable for students and teachers in universities and colleges majoring in food science and engineering, nutrition and hygiene, agricultural product processing, and related fields."