Functional and Medicinal Beverages. Volume 11: The Science of Beverages

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

Authors

Alexandru Grumezescu Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science and Faculty of Medical Engineering, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu is a lecturer in the Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, at the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. He is an experienced researcher and published editor in the field of nano and biostructures. He is the editor-in-chief of two international open access journals: Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, Letters and Applied NanoBioScience. Dr. Grumezescu has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, authored nine books, and has served as an editor for more than 50 scholarly books. Alina Maria Holban Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Romania. Alina-Maria Holban is a lecturer in Microbiology and Immunology, at the Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest; and associate researcher at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Her primary area of research is the development of bionanomaterials with antimicrobial applications. Dr. Holban has published 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 42 conference/symposia proceedings, and has edited more than 21 edited books.