Product Description: Read about 101 of the top disease-fighting, immune-boosting foods. Many Super Foods will be delightful and delicious surprises. They include dark chocolate, blueberries, sweet potatoes and even coffee!Each Super Food profile includes health benefits, selection and storage recommendations, preparation and serving tips...read more

Product Description: The blurring of boundaries between hitherto distinct scientific disciplines, technologies or markets is a common and powerful phenomenon. Subjects of this convergence often change consumer behaviours, favouring products and platforms with multiple functions...read more

Product Description: Antioxidants and Functional Components in Aquatic Foods compiles for the first time the past and present research done on pro and antioxidants in aquatic animals. The book addresses an area of extreme importance for aquatic foods, since lipid oxidation leads to such a large number of quality problems...read more

Product Description: Experimental investigations in the past 10-15 years have provided convincing evidence of the cancer preventive potential of berries. Berries and their components have been shown to reduce the malignant properties of cancer cells in culture by influencing genes associated with cancer development...read more

Product Description: Biocatalysis and biotechnology are rapidly advancing areas of research with the significant advantages of high specificity, efficiency, energy conservation, and pollution reduction. With applications in industrial processes and the huge world nutraceutical and functional food market, of which the US alone is responsible for more than $100 billion per year, this is clearly a domain that needs a comprehensive reference for the current knowledge in the field...read more

Product Description: In 2010, esteemed researchers gathered at a workshop held at the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. Drawn from these proceedings, Canola and Rapeseed: Production, Processing, Food Quality, and Nutrition presents state-of-the-art information on the chemistry of the minor constituents of canola and rapeseed and their impact on human health...read more

Product Description: Cereal and pulse crops are staple foods that provide essential nutrients to many populations of the world. Traditionally, whole grains were consumed but most current foods are derived from refined fractions of cereal and pulse crops...read more

Product Description: In his previous books, such as his National Bestseller The Healthy Green Drink Diet, Jason Manheim taught us how to make delicious green smoothies, protein smoothies, and suprefood smoothies that work wonders for organ health, immune system strength, and weight loss...read more

Product Description: Advances in technologies for the extraction and modification of valuable milk components have opened up new opportunities for the food and nutraceutical industries. Reviewing the latest research in this dynamic area, this book covers modern approaches to the separation of dairy components and manufacture of dairy ingredients...read more

The study of nutritional supplements has become increasingly important within orthodox establishments throughout the world, and as the market for these products continues to grow, so does the need for comprehensive scientifically sound information about these products, their properties and potential health effects. Geoffrey P. Webb, in this exciting and most useful new book, not only looks at the accepted uses of dietary supplements, such as the use of fish oils in the prevention of heart disease and arthritis, but also explores the wider picture, identifying common themes and principles or particular categories of supplements. Dietary Supplements and Functional Foods provides an excellent introductory text on this fascinating subject.

Product Description: "Eat Pretty is a gorgeous book that reveals the latest research based ageless secrets of true beauty from the inside out and outside in throughout the seasons of the year and seasons of life. Beauty full reading to last a lifetime...read more

Product Description: This book puts an end to the established thought that eating healthfully means bravely stomaching wheatgrass smoothies and suffering through bland plates of cardboard-like offering. The recipes in this book feature 50 of the hottest "functional foods, all back by extensive research for their health benefits...read more

Product Description: Cardiovascular disease remains the number one killer in North America and around the world. The staggering medical costs involved in treating patients suffering from this disease demand an alternative approach to prevent or minimize its development...read more