Title:Functional Foods for Health: The Interrelated Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Role of Fruits, Vegetables, Herbs, Spices and Cocoa in Humans
Volume: 22
Issue: 44
Author(s): Mauro Serafini and Ilaria Peluso
Affiliation:
Keywords:
Antioxidants, human, functional foods, inflammation, oxidative stress, plant foods.
Abstract: The health benefits of plant food-based diets could be related to both integrated antioxidant and antiinflammatory
mechanisms exerted by a wide array of phytochemicals present in fruit, vegetables, herbs and spices.
Therefore, there is mounting interest in identifying foods, food extracts and phytochemical formulations from plant
sources which are able to efficiently modulate oxidative and inflammatory stress to prevent diet-related diseases. This
paper reviews available evidence about the effect of supplementation with selected fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices
and their extracts or galenic formulation on combined markers of redox and inflammatory status in humans.
