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Herbal or plant ingredients demonstrate beneficial effects against human disease treatment and prevention. These ingredients are collectively referred to as phytochemicals. Volume 9 describes these ingredients, their pharmacological actions and novel detection methods with regard to herbal remedies such as Chimonanthus praecox (wintersweet), a green revolution to increase the detection of new ingredients and ingredients, and the typical tropical fruit known as jackfruit. This volume mainly describes their effects, preventions and treatments, including their roles as folklore remedies: Chapter 1: “Medicinal Phytochemicals and Health Effects of Chimonanthus praecox (Wintersweet) Based on Their Evidences; Chapter 2: “The Green Revolution in Nanotechnology: Sustainable Preparation of Nanoparticles from Phytochemicals and Their Applications; and Chapter 3: “The Phytochemicals and Health Benefits of Artocarpus heterophyllus (Jackfruit)”. These chapters will provide more advanced information to researches in the region of new drug designs of phytochemicals.

In East Asia, Korean ginseng has long been used as a private medicine and nourishing tonic, used for maintaining physical strength as well as treating and preventing various diseases. Coffee is known for preventing lifestyle diseases such as high blood pressure, myocardial infarction, diabetes and dementia, and has adjuvant effects. In India, Semecarpus anacardium L. f has been used as a cure for private medicine and has been used as various disease treatments. In fact, Semecarpus anacardium L. f. contains bioactive ingredients such as antioxidant compounds. Mexican peppers with bright variegated colors are rich in plant pigmentation. Among these plant dyes, in particular, authors describe the correlation between carotenes and functionality, as well as the challenges to prevent and treat these diseases. A detailed explanation of these four titles is made as follows: Volume 10 mainly dscribes the effects, preventions and treatments of ginseng, including its folklore remedy as phytochemicals as follows: Chapter One: “Medicinal Phytochemicals and Health Effects of Panax ginseng (Korean Ginseng)”; Chapter Two: “Coffee´s Phytochemicals: From Biosynthesis to Health Benefits”; Chapter Three: “Nature-Inspired Phytochemicals and the Pharmacological Activities of Herbal Plants of the Anacardiaceae Family and Semecarpus anacardium L.f”; and Chapter Four: “Carotenoids from Mexican Peppers and Their Benefical Effects.” These chapters will provide more advanced information to researches in the region of new drug designs for phytochemicals.

Recently, much evidence has shown that phytochemicals are essential for daily health maintenance just like essential amino acids, vitamins, and minerals. However, some of these components are not able to produce within our bodies. Therefore, we must intake these phytochemicals from external sources. Based on the above fact, this book mainly dscribes the phytochemicals and their effects, including preventions and treatments as follows: Chapter One: “Medicinal Phytochemicals and Health Effects of Henbit Lamium amplexicaule L. Based on Their Evidences”; Chapter Two: “Natural Carotenoids: Occurrence, Structure, Synthesis and Their Dietary Absorption”; Chapter Three: “The Phytochemicals and Health Benefits of Murraya koenigii”; Chapter Four: “Bioactive Compounds from Lippia citriodora: Application in Diseases Prevention”; and Chapter Five: “Food for Mental Cognition and Brain Health”. These chapters will provide more advanced information to researches in the academic region of advanced novel drug designs using phytochemicals.

Bioactive phytochemicals contribute immensely to the operations and functions that occur within human beings. Scientists have coined the term “nutraceuticals” to describe any plant-based biochemical substances that positively affect physical condition and status. They promote health benefits and serve many purposes, such as acting as antioxidants, cancer inhibitors, hepatoprotectants, hypertensive inhibitors, and possessing antidiabetic and antidepressant properties, among other qualities. With these characteristics in mind, the authors describe how these nutraceuticals aid in the prevention and treatments of diseases. The authors intend for their research to aid in the further exploration and discovery of new drug designs and applications for nutraceuticals.

The bioactive components of plants comprehensively continue to represent the nutritional and functional actions for the healthy daily lives of humans. Through these components, scientists and researchers are able to promote healthy lifestyles and help people live for a long time without diseases and disorders. Recently, many beneficial health effects of plant components have been demonstrated via epidemiological surveys, experimental results and clinical evidence. This book is the eighth volume of a series that has mainly contained information concerning phytochemicals and their effects, including preventions and treatments. The chapters are divided as follows: Chapter One: “Medicinal Phytochemicals and Health Effects of Patrinia scabiosaefolia Fisch” (patrinia, bai jiang cao); Chapter Two: “Furanocoumarins from the Genus Ficus: Occurrence, Analysis, Health and Toxic Properties”; Chapter 3: “Neuroprotective Effects of a Water-Soluble Extract from the Culture Mediums of Lentinus edodes and Ganoderma lucidum Mycelia: The Possible Reduction Mechanism of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress through Antioxidation”; and Chapter Four: “The Phytochemicals and their Health Benefits of Moringa oleifera Lam (Family: Moringaceae)”. These chapters will provide more advanced information to researches for the development of new nutraceutical drug designs.

Diverse phytochemical functions on vegetables and fruits are discussed. Each chapter of Volume 5 describes the components and health effects. These include: the nutritional/benfetial compounds of turmeric, followed by the mechanism and exacerbation of neuronal damage after cerebral ischemia on protective effects of a mushroom Ganoderma lucidum mycelia, anti-arthritis medicinal compounds for arthritis and joint ailments, medicinal phytochemicals and health effects in a tropical fruit Garcinia indica (kokum), as well as the metabolomic investigation of Vaccinium myrtillus (bilberry). These chapters will provide more advanced information to researchers studying novel chemotherapeutic development.

Epidemiologically, nutritious values of vegetables and fruits have been the focus for daily health maintenance and disease prevention. Health phytochemicals such as carotenoids, flavonoids, anthocyaninsm, betalains, vitamines, minerals as well as three major nutrients have been found in vegetables and fruits. Each chapter of Volume 3 describes these phytochemicals and their experimental facts and clinical applications.

Most food nutrition contains the phytochemicals for human health. Carotenoids and polyphenols, such as flavonoids and phenolic acids, might be especially responsible for their anti-oxidative capacity in vegetables and fruits. This volume will also focus on the relationship between their structure and functions.

Vegetables and fruits with diverse natural colors contain abundant functional phytochemicals such as carotenoids, anthocyanins and betalains. Additionally, these phytochemicals also contain vitamins, essential amino acids, unsaturated fatty acids, minerals, food enzymes and other plant components. This book describes the relationship of evidence-based functions and mechanisms of the phytochemicals in vegetables and fruits, and foods including cereal crops, nuts, beans, seafood and others. Research has been found that a higher intake of fruits and vegetables has been epidemiologically associated with an improvement of and lower risk and treatment for many diseases such as cancer, hypertension, diabetes, osteoporosis and others.

Dietary anthocyanins and flavonoids in vegetables, fruits and grains have their diverse functions in human dietary life. Topics discussed in this book include original findings and reviews in the distributions, extractions, separations, characterization, stability, functions, and regulations of the biosynthetic enzymes by anthocyanins and flavonoids, food colors, and molecular biology. Kiwifruits, muscadine berries, Justicia species, strawberries, a Brazilian fruit of jabuticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora), jujube berry fruits, grapes, bilberries, taro as a vegetable and corn and other fruits have been included in this book.