Instant Insights: Nutritional and Health Benefits of Beverage Crops

This collection of reviews examines the nutritional and health benefits of beverage crops, including coffee, tea, and coffee leaves. It highlights the importance of coffee leaves' high antioxidant potential and their impact on fruit quality, as well as the beneficial effects of coffee consumption on chronic disease prevention. The chapter on tea discusses its phytochemicals, analytical techniques, and potential health benefits, including combatting chronic diseases.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 23 May 2023
Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited

This collection presents four peer-reviewed reviews on the nutritional and health benefits of beverage crops. The first chapter introduces the significance of coffee leaves, emphasizing their high antioxidant potential and impact on fruit quality. It provides an inventory of molecules identified in the leaves of cultivated coffee trees and discusses their beneficial effects on human health. The second chapter examines the nutritional and health-related aspects of regular coffee consumption, focusing on its ability to prevent the onset of chronic diseases. It also highlights the potential side effects of excessive coffee consumption, including caffeine tolerance, dependence, and withdrawal. The third chapter discusses the main phytochemicals contained in tea, including polyphenols, amino acids, vitamins, carbohydrates, and purine alkaloids. It reviews the current analytical techniques available for tea characterisation, such as chromatic and spectroscopic techniques. The final chapter explores the beneficial health effects of consuming tea on a regular basis. It considers the potential role for tea in combatting chronic diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as the possible mechanisms of actions of tea constituents.

Weight: 200g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781786769756