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Natural products have been used for culinary and medicinal purposes for centuries. A large body of the book and other scholarly literature revealed many plants and herbs' nutritional or medicinal properties. The book attempts to compile comprehensive scientific knowledge available on Fenugreek, one of the extensively known and studied plant sources, and broader health benefits beyond commonly known applications such as spice, diabetes, and lipid management. The book is a unique compilation of information on sources on traditional wisdom as well as modern medicinal scientific literature collected from various primary sources such as peer-reviewed journals. The diverse areas of fenugreek, such as traditional wisdom, chemistry, nutritional, medicinal, food preparations and formulations, and regulatory status, are addressed in the book through individual chapters written by highly experienced academic and industrial professionals. Fenugreek is an ancient medicinal herb used extensively worldwide as food a well as in medicine. In Ayurveda, fenugreek is well described in the name Methika with its therapeutic potentials as medicine, used as single herb and also part of many poly herbal combinations. Many key aspects of fenugreek, such as biodiversity, sophisticated extraction technologies, sports nutrition applications, use in food preparations, formulations, and regulatory status, are covered in separate chapters of the books. The extensive range of medicinal applications in managing metabolic, inflammatory, neuropsychological, female specific, fibrotic, immunological, infectious, and malignant diseases and disorders are covered in separate chapters. Such comprehensive coverage makes the book useful for broad international readers, including academician, manufacturers, traditional or modern medicine practitioner, nutritionists, dieticians, fitness trainer, fitness freaks, sports enthusiast, scientist, regulators, teacher, student, or anyone who need scientific evidence on fenugreek for possible products, benefits, risk assessment, or claim validations. This book can be used by organizations such as nutraceutical companies, universities, sports organizations, fitness centers, health research organizations, and regulatory bodies. The cover design represents the broad health applications for fenugreek seeds or leaves, traditional use in food, modern functional or health food to modern medicine (capsules and tablets), which complements the theme of fenugreek evolution very well. The book is structured into various sections, with each section on relevant topics, and has a table of content, index, citations, references, and figures. These attributes make the book highly flexible for those who wish to get information nonsequential manner. The books follow an evidence-based approach with extensive citations and reference lists at the end of each chapter, which can be valuable for obtaining more information on a specific topic of interest. Thus, the book has comprehensive documentation on the fenugreek-specific scientific research since the last fenugreek-specific was published in 2002. The book indeed will encourage new areas of research and health applications for fenugreek or fenugreek-based products. Rajagopala S. Department of Kaumarabhritya, All India Institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi, India

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Dilip Ghosh, PhD, FACN is an international speaker, facilitator and author and professionally associated with SOHO-Flordis International (SFI), Australia; Honorary Ambassador, Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI), University of Western Sydney. With more than 20 years of experience in both pharmaceutical and food-nutrition industries, he is one of the pioneer researchers in the evaluation of the health claim opportunities of potential functional food ingredients and complementary medicines through an evaluation of the current scientific evidence base and related claims, and provides commentary on gaps in science including potential requirements for research such as human studies. Dr. Prasad Thakurdesai, Ph.D., is associated with Indus Biotech Private Limited, Pune, India. He has 30 years of professional experience in academia and industry. He has contributed more than 100 international journal publications, 60 conference presentations, one book, 2 book chapters, 11 magazine articles, 8 awards, with the supervision to 4 PhD and 32 MPharm students in areas of pharmacology, toxicology, nutraceuticals, and complementary medicines.

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