Nutraceuticals detailed syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Civil 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 Civil Engineering 7th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Civil 7th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Open Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to Civil Open Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of nutraceuticals is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION AND SIGNIFICANCE 6 Introduction to Nutraceuticals and functional foods; importance, history, definition, classification, list of functional foods and their benefits, Phytochemicals, zoochemicals and microbes in food, plants, animals and microbes.
Unit II
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Unit III
ASSESSMENT OF ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY 11 In vitro and in vivo methods for the assessment of antioxidant activity, Comparison of different in vitro methods to evaluate the antioxidant, antioxidant mechanism, Prediction of the antioxidant activity of natural phenolics from electrotopological state indices, Optimising phytochemical release by process technology; Variation of Antioxidant Activity during technological treatments, new food grade peptidases from plant sources.
Unit IV
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Unit V
SAFETY ISSUES 6 Health Claims, Adverse effects and toxicity of nutraceuticals, regulations and safety issues International and national.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Asian Functional Foods (Nutraceutical Science and Technology) by John Shi (Editor), Fereidoon Shahidi (Editor), Chi-Tang Ho (Editor), CRC Publications, Taylor & Francis, 2007
- Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals in Cancer Prevention by Ronald Ross Watson (Author), Blackwell Publishing, 2007
- Marketing Nutrition: Soy, Functional Foods, Biotechnology, and Obesity by Brian Wansink.
- Functional foods: Concept to Product: Edited by G R Gibson and C M Williams, Wood head Publ., 2000
- Hanson, James R. Natural Products: The Secondary Metabolites, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003.
Course Outcomes:
NUTRACEUTICALS
- Acquire knowledge about the nutraceuticals and functional foods, their classification and benefits.
- Acquire knowledge of phytochemicals, zoochemicals and microbes in food, plants, animals and microbes
- Attain the knowledge of the manufacturing practices of selected nutraceutical components and formulation considerations of functional foods.
- Distinguish the various in vitro and in vivo assessment of antioxidant activity of compounds from plant sources.
- Gain information about the health benefits of various functional foods and nutraceuticals in the prevention and treatment of various lifestyle diseases.
- Attain the knowledge of the regulatory and safety issues of nutraceuticals at national and international level.
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