Vitamins as Nutraceuticals: A Comprehensive Guide

Edited by Eknath D. Ahire, Raj K. Keservani, Khemchand R. Surana, Sippy Singh, and Rajesh Kumar Kesharwani, this book delves into the development of nutraceutical products that maximize vitamin benefits to human health and various health conditions. As vitamins are predicted to be one of the most significant nutritional advancements over the next 25 years, this book serves as a single authoritative resource for the nutraceutical sector.

With a pressing need to address the rising number of cases of nutritional deficiency disorders and the high number of deaths caused by a lack of knowledge or a deviation from healthy eating habits, this book is published at a crucial time. It contains 12 chapters, starting with the definition and classification of the field of vitamins, focusing on legislative issues in both the United States and the European Union.

Recent advances and applications are discussed, along with scientific information on the importance of vitamins as nutraceuticals to human health, as well as the potential mechanisms of nutraceuticals in illness prevention, management, and control. The focus is on vitamins as nutraceuticals for health conditions such as human nutrition, pregnancy, oral health, anemia, and blindness.

The book also explores the structure and function of various vitamins and covers the impact of various vitamins on immunity and the nutraceutical properties of seaweed vitamins and marine-derived sources of nutritional vitamins. The beneficial effects of water-soluble vitamins in nutrition, health promotion, and nutraceutical potential of fat-soluble vitamins, are also discussed.

This book will be read by a range of researchers and industry scientists such as vitamin formulators, food scientists and food manufacturers, as well as those in the pharmaceutical industry, nanotech industry, novel drug delivery research laboratories, and the health sector.

Product Details

Publisher: Wiley-Scrivener; 1st edition (June 14, 2023)

Language: English

Hardcover: 320 pages

ISBN-10: 1394174705

ISBN-13: 978-1394174706