 | Herbal Bioactives and Food Fortification: Extraction and Formulation Subjects: Food Science & Technology; Medicine Dentistry Nursing & Allied Health; Physical Sciences; Food Chemistry; Medicine; Chemistry; Complementary & Alternative Medicine; Natural Products; Nutrition; Recent major shifts in global health care management policy have been instrumental in renewing interest in herbal medicine. However, literature on the development of products from herbs is often scattered and narrow in scope. Herbal Bioactives and Food Fortification: Extraction and Formulation provides information on all aspects of the extraction o D. Suresh Kumar earned his PhD from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, in 1977. In 1986, he joined the International Institute of Ayurveda, Coimbatore, as a research officer in the Department of Physiology. From 1986 to 2003, he conducted research on various aspects of Ayurveda. In collaboration with Dr. Y.S. Prabhakar, he proposed the first mathematical model for the ayurvedic concept of tridoa in the disease state. He also offered a novel definition for the ayurvedic class of medicine arka , based on his study of the Sanskrit text Arkaprakasa . From 2003 to 2012 he was senior scientist in the Research and Development Centre of Sami Labs Ltd., Bangalore, where he worked on various aspects of product development and developed processes for the extraction of five nutraceuticals. He is currently the head of the research and development laboratory at the Ayurveda consortium, Confederation for Ayurveda Renaissance Keralam Ltd., Koratty, Kerala. |
