Handbook of Dietary Phytochemicals

This book summarizes recent advances in the chemistry, bioactivity, nutrition, and functional aspects of dietary phytochemicals, as well as the health and functional aspects of foods rich in phytochemicals. Consisting of forty-four chapters, it discusses the different chemical types of phytochemicals in our diets and food and presents data collected from animal or human experiments that are directly related to human health. Each chapter covers the chemistry, epidemiological study, bioavailability, bioactivity (animal experiments) function in humans and safety, as well as products on the market. Moreover, the more than 200 figures make it easy to grasp the main findings in each area.

This book is useful to a wide readership in the fields of food science and nutrition.

Professor Jianbo Xiao obtained his PhD in nutritional science from Okayama Prefectural University, Japan (2009). He worked at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany (2013-2015), prior to joining the University of Macau in 2015. Prof. Xiao has published over 150 papers, including 34 reviews, and 24 papers that have been listed as ESI “Highly Cited Papers”. Prof. Xiao was selected as 2016 and 2017 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher (HCR) in agricultural science, and he is currently the associate editor of Phytochemical Analysis (Wiley) and the Journal of Berry Research (IOS), and on the editorial boards of 15 international journals including Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, Food and Chemical Toxicology, Phytomedicine, Industrial Crops and Products, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Current Drug Metabolism, Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Molecules, Frontiers in Chemistry, Pharmacognosy Magazine, Research Journal of Pharmacognosy, Recent Patents on Food, and Nutrition & Agriculture. He was a chairman of the 2015 International Symposium on Phytochemicals in Medicine and Food (ISPMF2015, Shanghai) organized by the Phytochemical Society of Europe, and its second edition (2-ISPMF, Fuzhou, 2017) and third edition (3-ISPMF, Kunming, 2018).

Professor Satyajit D. Sarker is a Professor of Pharmacy and the Director of School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Liverpool, UK. He is the Founding Head of the Centre for Natural Products Discovery at LJMU. He obtained his B.Pharm. (Hons.) and M.Pharm. (postgraduate) degrees from the University of Dhaka and his Ph.D. in Phytochemistry from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Prof. Sarker isa world-renowned natural products researcher, whose research falls in the area of pharmaceutical and natural products chemistry and rational drug design (medicinal chemistry), and focuses on anticancer, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antimalarial and antimicrobial properties, and cancer chemopreventive and wound-healing potential of purified compounds from higher plants as well as novel synthetic organic molecules.

Prof. Sarker is one of the most cited phytochemists and has over 630 publications with more than 18,800 citations, an h-index of 61, and an i10 index of 401 (Google Scholar). He has been the Editor-in-Chief of Phytochemical Analysis since 2010, has been part of the Editorial Advisory Board of more than 40 journals, and regularly reviews articles for more than 80 international journals. He co-authored the popular textbook, Chemistry for Pharmacy Students, published by Wiley & Sons in2007, and subsequently, this book was translated in Indonesian, Japanese, Greek and Portuguese languages; the second edition of this book was published in 2019. He is also the co-author of the only book on Steroid Dimers, published by the same publisher in 2012. He co-edited both the second and third editions of the book, Natural Products Isolation, published by Humana Press Springer-Verlag, respectively, in 2005 and 2012. His novel contribution in the field of phytochemistry is the book Computational Phytochemistry, published by Elsevier in 2018, and his latest book is Medicinal Natural Products: A Disease-Focused Approach, published by Elsevier in 2020.

Professor Yoshinori Asakawa first studied biology at the Tokushima University, and then atttended graduate school at Hiroshima University, studying organic chemistry and obtaining his PhD degree there before being appointed as a research assistant. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at the Université Louis Pasteur, France where he worked for two years with Professor Guy Ourisson, one of the most original natural product chemists worldwide. Professor Asakawa has published 674 original papers, 14 reviews and 38 books. His three books on the “Chemical Constituents in Bryophytes,” appeared in “Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products” (Springer Press) and are the “bibles” for moss researchers, biochemists, and phytochemists.

Professor Asakawa is the former editor of Phytomedicine and Spectroscopy, and serves on the editorial boards of  the Journal of Natural Products, Phytochemistry, Phytochemistry Letters, Planta Medica, Current Chemistry and Biology, Fitoterapia, Flavour and Fragrance Journal, Natural Product Research, Natural Product Communications, Arkivoc and Malaysian Journal of Sciences, among others. He is the president of Phytochemical Society of Asia and of Terpenes, Essential Oils and Aromatics. For his outstanding research, he was awarded the Hedwig Medal, from the International Association of Bryologists, international prizes for phytochemistry, Jack Cannon Gold Medal, Gusi International Peace Prize, Japanese Society of Pharmacognosy Prize, gold medal from Lublin Medical University and many others. He has organized eight international conferences at his University.