Ebook: Handbook of analysis of active compounds in functional foods

Content: Section I. Amino acids, peptides, and proteins. Essential amino acids / M-Concepción Aristoy and Fidel Toldrá -- Glutamine and taurine / Colin G. Prosser and Shane M. Rutherford -- Bioactive peptides / Marta Miguel ... [et al.] -- Glutathione / Omca Demirkol and Nuran Ercal -- L-carnitine / Jean Demarquoy, Caroline Rigault, and Françoise Le Borgne -- Creatine / Leticia Mora and Fidel Toldrá -- Analysis of bioactive peptides and proteins / Prithy Rupa and Yoshinori Mine -- Section II. Vitamins. Vitamin K / Xueyan Fu and Sarah L. Booth -- Methods for the simultaneous quantitative analysis of water-soluble vitamins in food products / Olivier Heudi -- Tocopherols, toctrienols, and their bioactive analogs / Severina Pacifico ... [et al.] -- Vitamin C / Olga Martín-Belloso, Isabel Odriozola-Serrano, and Robert Soliva-Fortuny -- Vitamin D / Jette Jakobsen and Rie Bak Jäpelt -- Section III. Terpenes. Hydrocarbon carotenoids / Maria da Graça Dias -- Oxycarotenoids (xanthophylls) / Daniele Giuffrida ... [et al.] -- Section IV. Phenolic compounds. Flavonoids : flavonols, flavones, and flavonones / Federico Ferreres and Francisco T. Tomás-Barberán -- Flavan-3-ols and proanthocyanidins / Sylvain Guyot -- Stilbenes and resveratrol / Maria da Rosário Bronze, Catarina M.M. Duarte, and Ana Matias -- Flavonoids : anthocyanins / Véronique Cheynier, Camila Gómez, and Agnès Ageorges -- Isoflavones / Gunter G.C. Kuhnle -- Hydrolyzable tannins : gallotannins, ellagitannins, and ellagic acid / Michael Jourdes ... [et al.] -- Analysis of chlorogenic acids and other hydroxycinnamates in food, plants, and pharmacokinetic studies / Nikolai Kuhnert, Hande Karaköse, and Rakesh Jaiswal