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Plant Food Residues as a Source of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods

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This chapter describes the use of different plant and vegetable food residues asNutraceuticals and functional foods and their uses are well addressed along with their disease management and their action as nutraceutical delivery vehicles.
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This chapter describes the use of different plant and vegetable food residues as nutraceuticals and functional foods. Different nutraceuticals are mentioned and explained. Their uses are well addressed along with their disease management and their action as nutraceutical delivery vehicles.

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Antioxidant activity of pomegranate juice and its relationship with phenolic composition and processing

TL;DR: HPLC-DAD and HPLC-MS analyses of the juices revealed that commercial juices contained the pomegranate tannin punicalagin while only traces of this compound were detected in the experimental juice obtained from arils in the laboratory, which shows that pomesgranate industrial processing extracts some of the hydrolyzable tannins present in the fruit rind.
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Natural antioxidants from residual sources.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the extraction of polyphenols from agricultural and industrial wastes, and summarize available data on the factors affecting their antioxidant activity and stability, and, in some cases, the reported major active compounds identified.
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Functional food. Product development, marketing and consumer acceptance--a review.

TL;DR: A brief overview of the current functional food market situation in USA, Japan and some European countries is offered with some comments on functional food future potential.
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Chlorogenic acids and other cinnamates – nature, occurrence and dietary burden

TL;DR: This article defined the range of forms in which cinnamates (p-coumarates, caffeates, ferulates and sinapates) occur in foods and beverages subdividing them into (i) the classic chlorogenic acids and close allies, (ii) other esters, amides and glycosides, and transformation products formed during processing.