Subcritical water refers to high-temperature and high-pressure water. A unique and useful
characteristic of subcritical water is that its polarity can be dramatically decreased with …

Background Because of the important role of bioactive compounds in functional foods and
health care, more and more attention has been paid to the active components extracted by …

Centella asiatica is an ethnomedicinal herbaceous species that grows abundantly in tropical
and sub‐tropical regions of China, India, South‐Eastern Asia and Africa. It is a popular …

The use of medicinal plants as a fundamental component of the African traditional
healthcare system is perhaps the oldest and the most assorted of all therapeutic systems. In …

Pressurized liquid extraction is a “green” technology for the extraction of nutraceuticals from
foods and herbal plants. This review discusses the extraction principles and the optimization …

Natural bioactive compounds include a broad diversity of structures and functionalities that
provide an excellent pool of molecules for the production of nutraceuticals, functional foods …

Pressurized hot water extraction (PHWE) has become a popular green extraction method for
different classes of compounds present in numerous kinds of matrices such as …

Extracts rich in monomeric anthocyanins (MAC) and total phenolic compounds (TPC) were
obtained from grape marc by Pressurized Liquid Extraction (PLE). PLE was performed using …

Asiatic acid (AA) is a naturally occurring aglycone of ursane type pentacyclic triterpenoids. It
is abundantly present in many edible and medicinal plants including Centella asiatica that is …

In this article, we present a review work on different nutraceuticals found in natural matrices
together with the analytical techniques used to identify and/or quantify them with special …