Overview
While nutritional supplements have enormous advantages, food ingredients such as fruits and vegetables can play a significant preventative and therapeutic role in our daily lives. Fruits are found to have anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antifungal, and chemopreventive properties that can boost health, as well as prevent diseases. This new book explores the use of fruits as nutraceuticals for alternative treatment, as well as for disease prevention. The volume looks at how nutraceutical fruits can be used to prevent and manage a range of diseases that include mental illness, cancer, respiratory and lung diseases, cardiovascular diseases, liver disease, inflammatory bowel diseases, sleep disorders, etc. The book also looks at the roles of nutraceutical fruits in the metabolic syndrome and provides information regarding the safety and toxicity of neutraceutical fruits. Compiling comprehensive data on the nutritional content of various fruits in response to the management and prevention of several diseases, this volume will be useful for scientists, clinicians and researchers working in nutraceutical applications in health care, nutrition, microbiology, pharmacy, plant science and food science.
Full Product Details
Author: Raj K. Keservani
Publisher: Apple Academic Press Inc.
Imprint: Apple Academic Press Inc.
Weight: 0.890kg
ISBN: 9781774916483
ISBN 10: 1774916487
Pages: 378
Publication Date: 08 July 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Author Information
Raj K. Keservani, PhD, MPharm, is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of B. Pharmacy at the CSM Group of Institutions, Prayagraj, India. He has more than 16 years of academic (teaching) experience from various institutes of India in pharmaceutical education. He has supervised more than 25 undergraudate students for their research work. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in the field of pharmaceutical sciences in national and international journals, 10 patents, over 80 book chapters, three co-authored books, and over 50 edited books. He is also active as a reviewer for several international scientific journals. Dr Keservani has been recognized among the world's top 2% of scientists published by Stanford University, USA. His research interests include: nutraceutical and functional foods, novel drug delivery systems (NDDS), transdermal drug delivery, health science, cancer biology, and neurobiology. Dr Keservani is a life member of the Society of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (SPER) and the Pharmaceutical Educational Society Originated by Teachers & Students (PESOTS). Dr Keservani graduated with a pharmacy degree from the Department of Pharmacy, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India.
