Chinese Dates: A Traditional Functional Food delivers unique information on Chinese dates (jujubes) as typical ethical foods and traditional health-promoting foods. It conveys a better understanding of Asian food cultures and provides historical information in regard to traditional functional foods and their dietary applications. It discusses the health-promoting benefits of a wide variety of jujube fruits and covers different jujube products, such as jujube fruit juice and cakes. It also looks into the many kinds of jujube fruit-based medicated diets, describes innovative...

The second edition of a bestseller, Functional Food Ingredients and Nutraceuticals: Processing Technologies covers new and innovative technologies for the processing of functional foods and nutraceuticals that show potential for academic use and broad industrial applications. The book includes a number of "green" separation and stabilization technologies that have also been developed to address consumers concerns on quality and safety issues. It also details the substantial technological advances made in nano-microencapsulation that protect the bioactivity and enhance the solubility...

Citrus fruits have long been popular around the world and are a good source of Vitamin C. Citrus also contains many other functional bioactive phytochemicals including triterpenic acids, flavonoids, cerebrosides, amino acids, phenolic acids, mineral constituents, and polysaccharides, which are beneficial to human health. This book provides a general summary of current research results in the citrus fruits and citrus foods, extensively reviewing functional bioactive phytochemicals in citrus fruits such as polysaccharide, terpenes, polyphenols, carotenoids, and limonoids.