**Preface XI**


Contents

**Preface IX**

**Section 1 Apiculture Products as Functional Food 1**

Sandra Maria Botelho Mariano

**Section 2 Functional Food from South America 35**

Chapter 3 **The Revival of Quinoa: A Crop for Health 37** Mariane Lutz and Luisa Bascuñán‐Godoy

**Composition Until the Market 55**

**Compounds on Human Health 99**

Marjorie Reyes-Díaz

**Superfoods 131**

Chapter 2 **Bee Products as Functional Food 15**

**Products in Brazil 3**

Chapter 1 **A Systematic Review of the Antioxidant Activity of Apiculture**

Banu Yucel, Erkan Topal and Mustafa Kosoglu

Chapter 4 **Functional Properties of Brazilian Propolis: From Chemical**

César Ramos, Raul Ferreira and Jairo Kenupp Bastos

Chapter 5 **Native Chilean Fruits and the Effects of Their Functional**

Chapter 6 **Chilean Endemic/Native Plant Resources as Functional and**

Patricia Velásquez and Gloria Montenegro

Karuane Saturnino da Silva Araújo, Dark Luzia dos Santos Neto and

Andresa A. Berretta, Caroline Arruda, Felipe Galeti Miguel, Nathalia Baptista, Andresa Piacezzi Nascimento, Franciane Marquele-Oliveira, Juliana Issa Hori, Hernane da Silva Barud, Bianca Damaso,

Elizabeth M. Ulloa-Inostroza, Eric G. Ulloa-Inostroza, Miren Alberdi, Daniela Peña-Sanhueza, Jorge González-Villagra, Laura Jaakola and

#### Chapter 7 **Açaí (Euterpe oleracea) and Bacaba (Oenocarpus bacaba) as Functional Food 155**

Wanessa Almeida da Costa, Mozaniel Santana de Oliveira, Marcilene Paiva da Silva, Vânia Maria Borges Cunha, Rafael Henrique Holanda Pinto, Fernanda Wariss Figueiredo Bezerra and Raul Nunes de Carvalho Junior

#### **Section 3 Functional Food: Value Addition, Health & Safety Aspects 173**


#### **Section 4 Pet Foods with Functional Properties 307**

#### Chapter 15 **Benefits of Super Food and Functional Food for Companion Animals 309** Mary Ememe and Chukwuma Ememe

#### Chapter 16 **Functional Pet Foods 325** Alessandro Di Cerbo, Federica Pezzuto, Gianandrea Guidetti and Sergio Canello
