Fruits and Vegetables as Nutraceutical detailed syllabus for Food Technology (Food Tech) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Food Tech students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Food Technology 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Food Tech 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-VI scheme and its subjects refer to Food Tech Professional Elective-VI syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of fruits and vegetables as nutraceutical is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
Introduction to major class of bioactives in fruits and vegetables, present scenario of nutraceutical market, food and nutrient intake behavior in Indians, classification of plant derived bioactives, interaction of functional food with medicine, Vitamins and Minerals of fruits and Vegetables, Flavonoid, Isoflavone, and Carotenoid Contents in Raw fruits and Vegetables, Fibre – dietary fibre, plant tissue and type of cell walls, cell wall polysaccharide, effects of cooking or processing on cell wall composition, health benefits
Unit II
Pharmacological properties of fruits and vegetables; nutritional indicators and health aspects of fruits and vegetable consumption in adults; diabetes, diabetic complication and flavonoids; curcumin – epigenetic therapy; Nutraceuticals as therapeutic agent for inflammation – flavonoids, anthocyanin; diet and nutrition in prostate health, Antioxidants in fruits & vegetables – factors that affect antioxidant response to ingestion of fruit – health properties.
Unit III
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Unit IV
Concept of new health food product development from fruits and vegetables. Safety; marketing strategy and consumer response; economic analysis and costing of novel foods from fruits and vegetables, Prebiotic substances from fruits and vegetables and their utilization in functional foods, symbiotic foods, technological aspects and recent development in probiotics, prebiotics and symbiotic .
Unit V
Nutraceutical delivery vehicles, Role of bioactives from fruit and vegetables for human health -plant parts and chemistry, mechanism of action – case studies, recovery of valuable bioactives from residues of fruit and vegetable processing industry, stability and bioaccessibility of fruit and vegetables bioactives in food – food component interaction and matrix effect.
Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course the students would have the knowledge to
- Understand the concepts of physiological characteristics of fruits and vegetables.
- Aware of the basic concepts of nutraceuticals and its role in health and disease
- Examine the chemical nature of nutraceuticals and methods of extraction
- Evaluate the role of Nutraceuticals and functional food in health and disease
Text Books:
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