Spice Bioactive Compounds: Properties, Applications, and Health Benefits

Spice Bioactive Compounds: Properties, Applications, and Health Benefits

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Publisher's Synopsis

Nature offers us spices, which are a significant part of healthy and nutritious foods. The presence of abundant bioactive compounds in these spices makes them interesting from a scientific and health perspective. Extracts obtained from spice materials possess many health benefits and are rich sources of antioxidants, which suppress reactive oxygen species.

Spice Bioactive Compounds: Properties, Applications, and Health Benefits collects such information together in one book, presenting all necessary features related to spices and their properties. Exploring the most recent research related to the extraction, isolation, encapsulation, identification, and characterization of bioactive compounds present in spices, this book also covers the health element of spices and its utilization as a treatment for various disorders.

Key Features:

  • Discusses about 14 different spices and their salient features
  • Presents the novel technologies used in the extraction, isolation, and identification of bioactive compounds from spices
  • Explores the utilization of spices for culinary use in food

Industries such as the food and pharmaceutical industries have great interest in the use of bioactive compounds for the production of drugs and functional foods. Written by experts in their field, this book will be useful to anyone in either industry, as well as those who have an interest in the use of such bioactive compounds for the production of drugs and functional foods.

Book information

ISBN: 9781032062914
Publisher: CRC Press
Imprint: CRC Press
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 641.3383
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20220725
Language: English
Number of pages: 360
Weight: 957g
Height: 254mm
Width: 178mm
Spine width: 22mm