Vitamins as Nutraceuticals: Recent Advances and Applications

This book provides an overview of key issues including definitions of vitamins as nutraceuticals. The editors and chapter authors focus on vitamins as nutraceuticals for health conditions such as human nutrition, pregnancy, oral health, anaemia, blindness. This book also explores the structure and function of various vitamins, recent advances of vitamins, impact of various vitamins on immunity and nutraceutical properties of seaweed vitamin and marine-derived sources of nutritional vitamins. Beneficial effects of water-soluble vitamins in nutrition, health promotion and nutraceutical potential of fat soluble vitamins are also discussed. Examine the development of nutraceuticals products featuring maximising the vitamins benefits of human health.