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Record Nr.

UNINA9910583353003321

Titolo

The role of functional food security in global health / / edited by Ram B. Singh, Ronald Ross Watson, Toru Takahashi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, United Kingdom : , : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-12-813149-7

0-12-813148-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (793 pages)

Disciplina

338.19

Soggetti

Food security

Functional foods

Public health

Nutrition

Functional Food

Food Supply

Global Health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The Role of Functional Food Security in Global Health presents a collective approach to food security through the use of functional foods as a strategy to prevent under nutrition and related diseases. This approach reflects the views of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Heart Federation and the American Heart Association who advise Mediterranean, Paleolithic, plant food based diets, and European vegetarian diets for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. In addition, the book also emphasizes the inclusion of spices, herbs and millets, as well as animal foods. This book will be a great resource to the food industry as it presents the most efficient ways to use technology to manufacture slowly absorbed, micronutrient rich



functional foods by blending foods that are rich in healthy nutrients.