Nutrition and Food Sciences

Plant nutrition and Nutraceuticals

Plant resources are one of the most important resources of nutrients in human food & medicines. Plants are the large resources of phytonutrients. The understanding of nutrition, medicine, and plant biotechnology has switched the concepts about food, health and agriculture. This has brought a rapid revolution in medical fields. Strong recommendations are made to heal many fatal diseases now-a-days as a part of Phototherapy. With the help of these trends, improvement of the dietary nutritional values of fruits, vegetables and some bioactive compounds in traditional herbals has become targets of the plant biotechnology industry. Nutraceuticals are the products which are used as medicines as well as nutritional supplements. These are the by-products of plant nutrients which are having good therapeutics effects. Nutraceuticals are having considerable interest since it is effective against hardly curative chronic diseases i.e. allergy, cardiovascular, cancer, eye, Alzheimer’s, Immune & inflammatory diseases. In near future Nutraceuticals are going to have promising effects on Human health & well-being.