Special Issue Flavonoids and Their Disease Prevention and Treatment Potential: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

摘要

In recent years, the interest in flavonoids as dietary bioactives to prevent human diseases, as well as their candidacy as pharmaceutical leads, has exponentially expanded. Flavonoids are a sub-class of plant polyphenols that have been shown to possess numerous health-promoting physiological benefits in a wide range of investigations from cell-based assays to epidemiological and human intervention studies. In this e-book editorial, a brief overview and insights into articles published in the Special Issue of Molecules titled “Flavonoids and Their Disease Prevention and Treatment” are provided. It is evident that all these papers contribute toward new knowledge to discover and validate beneficial physiological functions and the therapeutic potential of dietary flavonoids. Beyond their role as biologically active molecules of plant food, new insights are presented for the potential use of flavonoid derivatives as effective therapeutics to manage certain cancers. Flavonoids also offer promising applications in the management of obesity- and inflammation-associated disorders as well as the control of infectious diseases, including COVID-19.