Title : Soybean: Ethno-nutraceutical and therapeutical food relevance of Northeast India
Abstract:
Soybean food products have secured a stable place in the market due to their nutritional and economical values. Soybean is considered as global dietary essentials for a healthy diet due to its high content of protein, phytochemicals along with other macro and micro nutrients. Potential beneficial impacts of dietary soy products on human health have raised scientific research interest in recent decades. This work addresses the area production as well as the ethno-nutraceutical and potential health benefits of soybean products usage by the indigenous ethnic tribal community from Northeast India. Soy components are a great source of dietary fiber, bioactive protein/peptides, phospholipids, phenolic compounds, isoflavones, saponins, and protease inhibitors and have exclusive health advantages, which are utilized in preventing chronic illnesses such as arteriosclerosis, obesity, diabetes, impaired immune function, neurodegenerative, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Furthermore, several investigations have reported the anti-oxidant, anti-proliferative, and anti-inflammatory properties of soy components and their emergence as functional foods. Thus, evaluating and exploiting the health benefits and functional bioactive compounds of soybean could provide a new strategy in the development of functional foods and pharmaceutical development which can substitute synthetic drugs having various side-effects.
