Improving Health and Nutrition through Functional Foods: Benefits and Applications presents functional foods as a therapeutic approach to disease and overall health and well-being. The book covers various functional foods, such as oilseeds, endemic fruits, and vegetables as foods to consider as complementary treatments for disease management. Written for nutrition researchers, food scientists, graduate students and other food science and health professionals, this book will be a welcomed reference for those who wish to better understand the role of bioactive compounds and functional foods in the treatment and prevention of disease.- Provides an overview on the separation, characterization, and identification of postbiotics from probiotic microbes- Includes classes of postbiotics and their mechanisms of action- Discusses the safety of postbiotics in humans and animals, the use of multi-omics to understand the effect of postbiotics on human physiology- Analyzes the existing regulatory framework for postbiotics

Improving Health and Nutrition through Functional Foods: Benefits and Applications presents functional foods as a therapeutic approach to disease and overall health and well-being. The book covers various functional foods, such as oilseeds, endemic fruits, and vegetables as foods to consider as complementary treatments for disease management. Written for nutrition researchers, food scientists, graduate students and other food science and health professionals, this book will be a welcomed reference for those who wish to better understand the role of bioactive compounds and functional foods in the treatment and prevention of disease.- Provides an overview on the separation, characterization, and identification of postbiotics from probiotic microbes- Includes classes of postbiotics and their mechanisms of action- Discusses the safety of postbiotics in humans and animals, the use of multi-omics to understand the effect of postbiotics on human physiology- Analyzes the existing regulatory framework for postbiotics

Improving Health and Nutrition through Functional Foods: Benefits and Applications presents functional foods as a therapeutic approach to disease and overall health and well-being. The book covers various functional foods, such as oilseeds, endemic fruits, and vegetables as foods to consider as complementary treatments for disease management. Written for nutrition researchers, food scientists, graduate students and other food science and health professionals, this book will be a welcomed reference for those who wish to better understand the role of bioactive compounds and functional foods in the treatment and prevention of disease.- Provides an overview on the separation, characterization, and identification of postbiotics from probiotic microbes- Includes classes of postbiotics and their mechanisms of action- Discusses the safety of postbiotics in humans and animals, the use of multi-omics to understand the effect of postbiotics on human physiology- Analyzes the existing regulatory framework for postbiotics