Herbal or plant ingredients demonstrate beneficial effects against human disease treatment and prevention. These ingredients are collectively referred to as phytochemicals. Volume 9 describes these ingredients, their pharmacological actions and novel detection methods with regard to herbal remedies such as Chimonanthus praecox (wintersweet), a green revolution to increase the detection of new ingredients and ingredients, and the typical tropical fruit known as jackfruit. This volume mainly describes their effects, preventions and treatments, including their roles as folklore remedies: Chapter...

Dietary anthocyanins and flavonoids in vegetables, fruits and grain corms have their diverse functions to human dietary life. Topics discussed in this book include original findings and reviews such as their distributions, extractions, separations, characterization, stability, functions, biosynthesis pathway, the regulation of the biosynthetic enzymes by anthocyanins and flavonoids, food colours, and molecular biology such as a relationship of biomolecule with anthocyanins or flavonoids in vegetables and fruits. Kiwifruits, muscadine berries, color rices, Justicia species, strawberry, a...