Main description:

This book summarizes recent advances in the chemistry, bioactivity, nutrition, and functional aspects of dietary phytochemicals, as well as the health and functional aspects of foods rich in phytochemicals. Consisting of forty-four chapters, it discusses the different chemical types of phytochemicals in our diets and food and presents data collected from animal or human experiments that are directly related to human health. Each chapter covers the chemistry, epidemiological study, bioavailability, bioactivity (animal experiments) function in humans and safety, as well as products on the market. Moreover, the more than 200 figures make it easy to grasp the main findings in each area.

Contents:

Introduction of Phytonutrients.- Antioxidants in Diets and Food.- Dietary Flavonols and O-Glycosides.- Chemopreventive potential of flavones, flavonols, and their glycosides.- Flavonoid C-glycosides in diets.- Biflavonoids and oligomeric flavonoids from food.- Soy isoflavones.- Citrus Flavanones.- Chalcones in Diets.- Dietary Xanthones.- Prenylated Flavonoids in Food.- Anthocyanins in Food.- Carotenoids in food.- Dietary Triterpenoids.- Sesquiterpenes in Fresh Food.- Sesquiterpenes in Cereals and Spices.- Dietary monoterpenoids.- Dietary diterpenoids.- Tea Catechins.- Theaflavins, Thearubigins, and Theasinensins.- Stilbenoids in Grapes and Wine.- Chlorogenic, caffeic, ferulic acids and their derivatives in foods.- Caffeoylquinic Acids.- Coumaric and Cinnamic Acids in Food.- Dietary Ellagitannins.- Gallotannins in Food.- Vitamins from food.- Curcumin in Food.- Isothiocyanates in food.- Polysaccharides in Food.- Dietary Fibers.- Oligosaccharides in Food.- Unsaturated fatty acids.- Saponins in Food.- Dietary Phytoecdysteroids.- Alkaloids in Diet.- Dietary Coumarins.- Lignans in Diets.- Gingerols and Shogaols from Food.- Organosulfur Compounds in Food.- Ginsenosides in Diets.- Procyanidins in Food.- Pyrazines.in food.- Phenylpropanoids (Phenylpropenes) in Diets.- Polyynes in Food.- Starch.