Natural ingredients are gaining increasing attention from manufacturers following
consumers' concerns about the excessive use of synthetic ingredients. However, the use of …

Bioactive metabolites obtained from fruits and vegetables as well as many drugs have
various capacities to prevent or treat various ailments. Nevertheless, their efficiency, in vivo …

One of the main groups of bioactive components in the food, healthcare and pharmaceutical
industries is phenolic compounds, which should be protected by encapsulation technologies …

Polyphenols are secondary metabolites found in all vascular plants and constitute a large
group of at least 10,000 unique compounds. Particular attention is currently being paid to …

Background Bioactive compounds possess plenty of health benefits, but they are chemically
unstable and susceptible to oxidative degradation. The application of pure bioactive …

Active plant constituents obtained from edible sources have manifested their
pharmacological potential as a therapy against several diseases. But the lack of their …

Today, there is an ever-growing interest on natural food ingredients both by consumers and
producers in the food industry. In fact, people are looking for those products in the market …

Acquisition of a healthy lifestyle through diet has driven the food manufacturing industry to
produce new food products with high nutritional quality. In this sense, consumption of …

Recently, owing to well-controlled release, enhanced distribution and increased
permeability, nanocarriers used for alternative drug and food-delivery strategies have …

Over the millennia, plants have represented for Humankind the main source of food, but also
a vast resource to maintain health, for prophylactic properties or to cure human and animal …