AUTHOR=Pandita Deepu , Pandita Anu 

TITLE=Omics Technology for the Promotion of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physiology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10.3389/fphys.2022.817247

DOI=10.3389/fphys.2022.817247

ISSN=1664-042X

ABSTRACT=The influence of nutrition and environment on human health has been known since ages. Phytonutrients (7,000 Flavonoids and Phenolic Compounds; 600 Carotenoids) and pro-health nutrients-nutraceuticals positively add to human health and may prevent disorders like cancer, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and dementia. Plant derived bioactive metabolites have acquired an imperative function in human diet and nutrition. Natural phytochemicals affect the genome expression (Nutrigenomics and Transcriptomics) and signaling pathways and act as epigenetic modulators of epigenome (Nutri Epigenomics). Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Epigenomics, miRNomics and Metabolomics are some of the main platforms of complete omics analyses, finding use in functional food and nutraceuticals. Now the recent advancement in integrated omics approach which is amalgamation of multiple omics platforms is practiced comprehensively to comprehend the food functionality in food science.