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Nutraceuticals and Superfoods

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Abstract

Nowadays, there is an ever-increasing trend in the case of nutraceuticals and superfoods as a result of growing concerns about the effects of diet on health. Nutraceuticals are natural biologically active compounds extractable from various food sources. In contrast, a superfood is any fresh or processed food claimed to have particular health-promoting attributes and/or can decrease the risk of chronic disease further than its basic nutritional function. Different studies have shown that the nutraceuticals and superfoods have various beneficial physiological effects, and their consumption can reduce the risk for disease development or can even cure some diseases because they are rich sources of a wide range of bioactive molecules and specific nutrients. Some examples of nutraceuticals and superfoods are curcumin, pomegranate, camel milk, bioactive peptides, and walnut, which their potential health benefits and applications for the development of functional food products with health-promoting properties have been studied in the present chapter.

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    Mehdi Mohammadian, Maryam Salami, Maryam Moghadam & Zahra Emam-Djomeh

  2. Institute of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

    Ali Akbar Moosavi-Movahedi

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Mohammadian, M., Salami, M., Moghadam, M., Emam-Djomeh, Z., Moosavi-Movahedi, A.A. (2021). Nutraceuticals and Superfoods. In: Rationality and Scientific Lifestyle for Health. University of Tehran Science and Humanities Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74326-0_5

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