Abstract:Nature has given us a wide range of biological compounds that can be utilized to help combat health problems, but sometimes with over-processing, these advantages are diminished or lost. Food and pharmaceutical companies have developed a range of new approaches to harness and retain the naturally occurring diversity and quality of bioactive compounds efficiently and effectively. Pharmaceutically important plant products have been known for millennia; they have been used in crude and unrefined forms. One of the… Show more
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