Handbook of Functional Foods

Fueled by the link between diet and well-being, the benefits of functional foods for going beyond basic nutrition and providing health advantages from digestion to enhanced immunity, are gaining momentum worldwide. Handbook of Functional Foods: Techniques, Analytics and Health Benefits is a comprehensive resource that provides an overview of the extraction and analytical identification techniques of foods' bioactive components for health and well-being while looking at metabolism, sensory, and safety components. This book reviews in detail how functional foods have the potential to drive innovation in the food industry, creating a broad range of healthier and more personalized food options. From emerging extraction and extrusion techniques for the creation of fiber-rich snacks to the synergistic effects of pro- and prebiotics on gut health, readers will come away with an advanced and fresh understanding of necessary insights needed to fill any knowledge gaps and aid in the development of new functional food products.

• Introduces comprehensive range of extraction and identification techniques of functional and bioactive components in various food products
• Advances knowledge in metabolic benefits of functional foods for the human body
• Analyzes probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics as functional foods
• Presents case studies in latest food manufacturing methods to drive innovation in the food industry