Plant Metabolites And Vegetables

This book is the most comprehensive guide on vegetable technology for processors, producers, and users of vegetables in food manufacturing. Two volumes of this book provide contemporary information that brings together current knowledge and practices in the value-chain of vegetables from production through consumption. The book is unique in the sense that it includes coverage of production and postharvest technologies, innovative processing technologies, packaging, and quality management.

This book mainly focuses on medicinal plants and the disease-preventing properties of phytochemicals, which will be a useful resource to the reader. This volume provides original research and reviews on the sources of phytochemicals, and their roles in disease prevention, supplementation, and accumulation in fruits and vegetables. The roles of anthocyanin, flavonoids, carotenoids, and taxol are presented too. Antioxidative and free radicle scavenging activity of phytochemicals is also discussed.

This volume offers you up-to-date, expert reviews of the fast-moving field of Lipid Peroxidation. The purpose of this book is to concentrate on recent developments on lipid peroxidation. The articles collected in this book are contributions by invited researchers with a long-standing experience in different research areas. The material presented here is understandable to a broad audience, not only scientists but also people with general background in many different biological sciences.