Functional foods, food supplements and nutraceuticals
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Driven by scientific advances in elucidating the relationship between diet and health, demand for food products that offer benefits beyond basic nutrition and satiety has increased substantially in recent years. Functional foods, food supplements and nutraceuticals are dietary components that bridge ‘nutrition’ and ‘pharmacology’. They carry bioactive compounds and/or microorganisms that can aid in the prevention or treatment of diseases, including but not limited to gastrointestinal disorders, cardiovascular illnesses, cancer and cognitive decline.
This Collection welcomes submissions reporting new developments in functional foods, food supplements and nutraceuticals, from molecular and functional characterization to product formulation and clinical evaluation.
Editors
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Yuanyuan Li
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
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Francesco Maione
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
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Ramesh Pothuraju
University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), USA
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Minaxi Sharma
Haute Ecole Provinciale du Hainaut- Condorcet, Belgium
Yuanyuan (Rose) Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology and the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research interests are nutrition, epigenetics and human health, nutritional and phytochemical intervention on cancer and metabolic disorders through epigenetic mechanisms and gut microbiome, nutrition and diet influence women’s health. Dr Li has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2018.
Francesco Maione is an Associate Professor in pharmacology and Head of ImmunoPharmaLab at Department of Pharmacy, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples Federico II. His research interests are -interleukin-17A (IL-17A) biology, immunological control of inflammation, cardiovascular disease, pharmacology of natural products. Prof Maione has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2019.
Ramesh Pothuraju is currently working as a Junior Faculty in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), Omaha, USA. His research interests are functional foods, nanotechnology, obesity, diabetes, and their related metabolic disorders along with pancreatic and CRC. Dr Pothuraju has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2021.
Minaxi Sharma is a leading Senior Researcher at Haute Ecole Provinciale du Hainaut- Condorcet, Belgium. Her research interests include the processing and green extraction technologies for functional plant-bioactives, development of advanced encapsulation strategies, and nano-fortification of plant bioactives to develop vegan-based functional and smart foods. Dr Sharma has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2021.
