About this Research Topic
Sustainable practices can help ensure food security and a healthy food supply for future generations. A sustainable diet can improve health along with reduced environmental impact, ensuring our ethical and social responsibility. Sustainable nutraceuticals are functional foods that offer a range of health and medicinal benefits including prevention and treatment of various diseases, besides providing basic nutrition. Nutraceuticals can be purified food nutrients, milk, cereals, soups, dietary supplements, herbs, or herbal products. They can also include phytochemicals, antioxidants, probiotics, vitamins, and essential minerals sourced from plants or microorganisms or genetically engineered foods enriched with vitamins and essential minerals.
This article collection aims to explore and elucidate the potential of sustainable functional foods serving as putative nutraceuticals or plant medicine; to reduce chemically engineered medicine intake and revolutionize personalized diet. It also considers the environmental impact of sourcing ingredients, its manufacturing, packaging, and waste disposal processes. We invite researchers to submit original studies that investigate the bioactivity, bioavailability, and delivery system through which sustainable nutraceutical interventions can be used for enhancing health and nutrition. In addition to groundbreaking research and case studies, we welcome insightful reviews for a deeper understanding of their health implications, challenges, and opportunities and propose future research directions.
This Research Topic welcomes submissions around the following topics:
• Sustainable sources, bioavailability, and health benefits of phytochemicals as functional foods
• Bioactive plant compounds extraction and processing
• Dietary sources, probiotics, and prebiotics as functional foods for gut health
• Role of functional foods in obesity management, Immune-Boosting and antiaging
• Personalized functional food interventions for diseases
• Case studies, health claims, and scientific validation
• Formulation of sustainable functional foods
• Challenges and opportunities in the sustainable functional food market
This article collection aims to explore and elucidate the potential of sustainable functional foods serving as putative nutraceuticals or plant medicine; to reduce chemically engineered medicine intake and revolutionize personalized diet. It also considers the environmental impact of sourcing ingredients, its manufacturing, packaging, and waste disposal processes. We invite researchers to submit original studies that investigate the bioactivity, bioavailability, and delivery system through which sustainable nutraceutical interventions can be used for enhancing health and nutrition. In addition to groundbreaking research and case studies, we welcome insightful reviews for a deeper understanding of their health implications, challenges, and opportunities and propose future research directions.
This Research Topic welcomes submissions around the following topics:
• Sustainable sources, bioavailability, and health benefits of phytochemicals as functional foods
• Bioactive plant compounds extraction and processing
• Dietary sources, probiotics, and prebiotics as functional foods for gut health
• Role of functional foods in obesity management, Immune-Boosting and antiaging
• Personalized functional food interventions for diseases
• Case studies, health claims, and scientific validation
• Formulation of sustainable functional foods
• Challenges and opportunities in the sustainable functional food market
Keywords: Sustainable Diets, Functional Foods, Nutraceuticals, Bioactive Compounds, Precision Diet
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