Dietary Supplements of Plant Origin (eBook, PDF)

A Nutrition and Health Approach
Redaktion: Maffei, Massimo

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Dietary supplements are estimated to be used regularly by almost 60% of the American population, and over 300 million people worldwide. An important and ever-growing portion of this market is in botanical supplements that are derived from natural plants. Natural, however, does not necessarily mean safe, and although plants can provide health-essent

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134394913
• Artikelnr.: 55263996

Autorenporträt

Massimo Maffei

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Foreword
1 An introduction to dietary supplements of plant origin: definitions
background and an overview of this volume
2 Herbal dietary supplements in the European market
3 ESCOP
the European Commission
consumer policy and health protection
4 Industrial plants as sources of dietary supplements
5 Drug-like compounds from food plants and spices
6 Biotechnology of plant-derived dietary supplements
7 Biochemistry
physiology and bioengineering of bioactive compounds from plants used as dietary supplements
8 Interaction of herbs with other medicines: the example of St John's wort
9 Official and scientific information resources for botanical dietary supplements
Appendix
Index