Improving Health and Nutrition through Functional Foods: Benefits and Applications presents functional foods as a therapeutic approach to disease and overall health and well-being. The book covers various functional foods, such as oilseeds, endemic fruits, and vegetables as foods to consider as complementary treatments for disease management. Written for nutrition researchers, food scientists, graduate students and other food science and health professionals, this book will be a welcomed reference for those who wish to better understand the role of bioactive compounds and functional foods in the treatment and prevention of disease.
I. Fundamentals of Postbiotics 1. Postbiotics and Host Microbe Interactions 2. Insights into Probiotics Microorganisms 3. Postbiotics from Lactobacillus sp 4. Postbiotics from Bifidobacterium sp 5. Postbiotics from Lactococcus sp 6. Postbiotic from Saccahomyces sp 7. Postbiotics from non-LAB microbes Akkermansia 8. Postbiotics from non-LAB microbes Bacillus 9. Analysis of Postbiotic Metabolites from Probiotic Microbes 10. Analysis of Postbiotics from Fermented Dairy Food 11. Analysis of Postbiotics from non-dairy fermented food 12. Separation, Characterization, and Identification of Postbiotics from Probiotic Microbes 13. Methods Of Postbiotic Preparations and Optimization 14. Next Generation Sequence Analysis of Postbiotics in Fermented Food 15. Next Generation Probiotics as Sources of Postbiotics 16. Genomic characterization of Postbiotics 17. Nutritional Features and Safety of Postbiotics 18. Delivery and Dose Form of Postbiotics 19. Challenges and Limitations of Postbiotics II. Postbiotics Types and Mechanisms 20. Exopolysaccharides as Postbiotics 21. Short Chain Fatty Acids as Postbiotics 22. Biosurfactants As Postbiotics 23. Enzymes And Vitamins from Probiont as Postbiotics 24. Microbial Peptides as Postbiotics 25. Bacterial Lysate and Techoic Acid as Postbiotics 26. Mechanisms of Postbiotics Action 27. Commercially Available Human and Animal Postbiotics 28. Postbiotic Effects on Drug Metabolism and Therapeutic Outcomes 29. Postbiotics Metabolisms in a Dysbiotic Human Gut 30. Meta-Analysis of Postbiotics III. Applications of Postbiotics in Health and Pharmaceutical Industry 31. Postbiotics: A Health Promoters in Human and Animals 32. Multi-Omics to Understand the Effect of Postbiotics on Human Physiology 33. Meta-Analysis for the Use of Post Biotics for Pre-Clinical and Clinical Trials 34. Antimicrobial Effects of Postbiotics 35. Prevention of Microbial Infections by Postbiotic Metabolites 36. Prevention of Food Allergies Using Postbiotics 37. Anticancer And Antioxidant Activity of Postbiotics 38. Antioxidant Activity of Postbiotics 39. Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Postbiotics 40. Anti-Atherosclerotic Effects of Postbiotics IV. Applications of Postbiotics in Non-Human Host 41. Postbiotic Metabolites in Livestock Feeding 42. Postbiotics Metabolites in Aquaculture 43. Growth And Immunomodulatory Postbiotic Effects in Fish 44. Growth And Immunomodulatory Postbiotic Effects in Shrimp 45. Growth And Immunomodulatory Postbiotic Effects in Poultry 46. Growth And Immunomodulatory Postbiotic Effects in Pigs 47. Growth And Immunomodulatory Postbiotic Effects in Mice V. Applications of Postbiotics in Food Industry 48. Biopreservation of meat and fish products using Postbiotics 49. Biopreservation of Dairy Products Using Postbiotics 50. Biopreservation of Vegetables and Fruits Using Postbiotics 51. Bacteriocin: Novel Ingredients as Food Biopreservatives 52. Postbiotics Food Packing Based on Organic Acids and Peptides 53. Postbiotics Food Packing Using Bacteriocin 54. Antibiofilm Activity of Postbiotics 55. Degradation of Bisphenol a Using Postbiotics 56. Biodegradation of Pesticides Using Postbiotics 57. Biodegradation of Mycotoxins Using Postbiotics 58. New Product Developments from Postbiotics 59. Preservation of Postbiotics
Maira Rubi Segura Campos is the lead research professor at the Faculty of Chemistry Engineering and the coordinator of the Institutional Postgraduate in Chemical and Biochemical Sciences at the Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mérida, Mexico. She has authored 115 articles in national and international journals, 61 book chapters, 12 books, and 41 memoirs. She has also taught more than 170 courses at the pre-and postgraduate level and has actively participated in 170 national and international academic events.
