Table of Contents

Section 1: Introduction and Processing technologies 1. Introduction to Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals 2. Extraction of bioactive compounds 3. Application of Membrane Technology in Functional Food and Nutraceutical Industries 4. Functional dairy food products Section 2: Delivery of nutraceuticals: Application in functional food 5. Nanoparticulate delivery system 6. Exploring garden cress (Lepidium sativum) seed and its ingredients as a functional food 7. Liposome based delivery of Nutraceuticals 8. Delivery of Nutraceuticals through 3D food printing 9. Electrospining and Electrospraying technologies for Nutraceutical delivery systems 10. Supercritical-assisted encapsulation of nutraceuticals 11. APIsFast dissolving films - Delivery of nutraceuticals 12. Colon specific delivery of nutraceuticals 13. Innovative functional foods Section 3: Functional food and Nutraceuticals for disease and disorders 14. Cardiovascular disease 15. Functional Food and Nutraceuticals for the Prevention of Gastro Intestinal Disorders 16. Obesity and Diabetes 17. Nutraceuticals and functional food in cancer prevention and treatment 18. Nutraceuticals in sports medicine 19. Nutrigenetic, Nutrigenomic, and Nutriepigenetic Approaches for Precision Nutrition Section 4: Safety, tolerability and regulatory aspects of functional foods and nutraceuticals 20. Drug Nutraceutical Interactions 21. Pharmacokinetics and Bioavailability of Nutraceuticals 22. Regulations on Functional foods and Nutraceuticals

About the Author

Dr. C. Anandharamakrishnan is the Director of CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram. Before this, he served as Director of the National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management, Thanjavur (an Institute of National Importance under MoFPI, Govt. of India).

He obtained B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from A.C.Tech, Anna University, Chennai, and completed M.Tech at Anna University, Chennai. He has done his doctoral research in Chemical Engineering at the Loughborough University, United Kingdom.

Dr. C. Anandharamakrishnan is a renowned scientist and academician with vast expertise in the field of Food and Agro Processing. He is an active researcher with more than two decades of experience in research and administration. His research endeavors are well documented in the form of 216 impact factor publications with an average impact factor of 5.310 and an h-index of 64, three international patents, twelve Indian patents, and one commercialized patent. He is also the author and editor of 18 books and 125 book chapters published by coveted publishers. He has supervised 17 Ph.D. theses and more than 50 bachelor’s and master’s theses. He has been an invited speaker for 210 talks at national and international conferences, convocation addresses and panel discussions. He has transferred 17 technologies to various industries and has provided handholding support to more than 150 food processing start-ups and enterprises to facilitate product innovation and revenue growth.

He is an elected Fellow of several national and international professional bodies, serves on the editorial boards of reputed peer-reviewed journals and was honored by the Hon'ble President of India with the highest recognition award in the field of science, technology and innovation, 'Rashtriya Vigyan Shri’ 2024 Puraskar, for the distinguished contributions to the Agricultural Science sector. Earlier, was awarded the prestigious ‘ICAR – Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award for Outstanding Research in Agricultural Sciences – 2019’, Tata Innovation Fellowship 2019-20 by DBT, Government of India and the prestigious NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award 2018.

Dr. S. Parthasarathi is presently a Research officer at Riddet Institute, Massey University, New Zealand. He received his PhD from CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India. His research interests include nano- and microencapsulation of food bioactive compounds, and fabrication of dynamic in vitro digestion models. He edited a book with Dr. C. Anandharamakrishnan on Food Nanotechnology and published 10 book chapters and 18 research manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals.