
Functional and Medicinal Beverages
Volume 11: The Science of Beverages
Description
Key Features
- Highlights new concepts, innovative technologies and current concerns in the functional beverages field
- Covers detailed information on the engineering and processing of novel ingredients for health benefits
- Includes common and alternative ingredients for juices, vegetable blends, milk-based drinks, and probiotic and prebiotic based alternative beverages
Readership
Food scientists, food chemists, food microbiologists, food engineers in the beverages sector (R&D, Gov. and academia)
Table of Contents
1. An Overview of Functional Beverages
2. The Emerging Trends of Functional and Medicinal Beverage Research and its Health Implication
3. Herbal Extracts – New Trends in Functional and Medicinal Beverages
4. Bioactive Compounds Incorporated into Functional Beverages
5. Effects and Mechanisms of Antioxidant Rich Functional Beverages on Disease Prevention
6. Anti-Cancer Potential of Functional and Medicinal Beverages
7. Medicinal Properties and Functional Components of Beverages
8. Development of Functional Beverages: The Case of Plant Sterol-Enriched Milk-Based Fruit Beverages
9. Herbal Beverages and Brain Function in Health and Disease
10. Functional Beverages from Cereals
11. Oak as a New Potential Source for Functional Beverages: Their Antioxidant Capacity and Monomer Flavonoid Composition
12. Kombucha as a Functional Beverage
13. Probiotic and Prebiotic Beverages
14. Probiotic Beverages: A Treatment Alternative of Metabolic Syndrome
15. A New Generation of Probiotic Functional Beverages Using Bioactive Compounds from Agro-Industrial Waste
Product details
- No. of pages: 562
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: June 3, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128163979
- eBook ISBN: 9780128172636
About the Editors
Alexandru Grumezescu

Affiliations and Expertise
Alina Maria Holban
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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KenLau Wed Apr 15 2020
Great book
Great book
ScottInouye Tue Jan 14 2020
Functional and Medicinal Beverages
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