title: Functional Foods for Health: The Interrelated Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Role of Fruits, Vegetables, Herbs, Spices and Cocoa in Humans.
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.
authors.affiliation: Functional Foods and Metabolic Stress Prevention Laboratory, Centre for Food and Nutrition, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Via Ardeatina 546, 00176 Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Serafini
authors.forename: Ilaria
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Peluso
mesh_terms: D000975:Antioxidants; D003041:Coca; D005638:Fruit; D055951:Functional Food; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017365:Spices; D014675:Vegetables
chemical_list: D000975:Antioxidants
keywords: Antioxidants; functional foods; human; inflammation; oxidative stress; plant foods.