Abstract
Nutraceuticals are important biomolecules providing health benefits behind their nutritional value those can promote health and preventing diseases. Traditional nutraceuticals, including amino acids, vitamins, and nucleotide, have been widely used for promoting our health. Newly developed nutraceuticals with high-efficiency for providing medical or health benefits are increasingly applied in our everyday life. In this chapter, we firstly discuss the definition of nutraceuticals. Next, functionality-based different kinds of nutraceuticals are summarized. Finally, the applications of important typical nutraceuticals are discussed, such as gamma-aminobutyric acid, alpha-ketoglutaric acid, hyaluronic acid, vitamin B12, folate, glutathione, carotenoids, and N-acetylglucosamine.
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Liu, Y., Liu, L. (2019). Nutraceuticals Definition, Kinds and Applications. In: Liu, L., Chen, J. (eds) Systems and Synthetic Biotechnology for Production of Nutraceuticals . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0446-4_1
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