Chapter Eight - Terpene core in selected aromatic and edible plants: Natural health improving agents
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An introduction to selected edible and aromatic plants
Since time immemorial humans have used different parts of wild growing plants as food and medicine, and this particular knowledge gave them the advantage to survive harsh natural environment. All cultures in the world have a comprehensive, traditional knowledge on plants with nutritive and medicinal properties, which is used for the sake of preserving health in the absence of modern medicines as well as prolonging life expectancy. Aromatic plants are plants which contain essential oils
Terpene core in edible and aromatic plants: Terpenes and terpenoids
Plants produce various types of biologically active compounds, generally classified into three large groups: terpene-core compounds, alkaloids and phenolic compounds, among which terpenes/isoprenoids take an important place (Zwenger & Basu, 2008). The terms terpene and terpenoid are often used interchangeably in literature, even though they are not quite the same. According to Pereira, Severino, Santos, Silva, and Souto (2018), terpenoids are actually modified terpenes that contain oxygen in
Conclusions
People used and continue to use natural strategies so as to prolong and increase quality of life. This is where consummation of plants which produce bioactive terpenes becomes important. The fact that aside from fulfilling basic nutrient needs, they also benefit one's health has reached public worldwide (Ceccanti, Landi, Benvenutti, Pardosi, & Guidi, 2018).
This chapter showed that terpene and terpenoid compounds exert a wide variety of biological activities. Health beneficial effects were shown
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