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C. Egbuna, G. Dable-Tupas (eds.), Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42319-3_24
Chapter 24
Role of Nutraceuticals in Maternal
Nutrition
Sadia Hassan, Neelam Faiza, Muhammad Adil Farooq,
Chukwuebuka Egbuna, Habib-ur-Rehman, and Ahmed Olatunde
24.1 Introduction
Since the very beginning of existence, food and nutrition have been indispensable
companions of humans. The early man searched the world for food and medicinal
products from natural sources. He continued his quest for growing his food basket
in the plant and animal realms, curing his illnesses and discomforts. The desire to
achieve vitality and longevity also encouraged the early man in his immediate
neighbourhood to experiment with anything possible. The early man became conscious through a process of trial and error, analysis and logical reasoning and inference (Pushpangadan et al. 2014). He made selections of a variety of biological
materials to improve health, relieve pain or other physical and mental disorders.
Therefore, the gathered knowledge was passed on to successive generations.
Creative leaders of the generations that followed progressed incrementally and even
added new skills to this traditional information network. Through our ancestors, this
traditional wisdom has come down to us and we now call it traditional knowledge
or ethnic knowledge. We consider this system of knowledge perpetuated by folklore, local health practices, tribal knowledge system, information structures based
on family and culture, among others. Consequently, all the world’s ancient cultures
S. Hassan (*) · N. Faiza
Institute of Home and Food Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Government College
University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
M. A. Farooq · Habib-ur-Rehman
Institute of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan
C. Egbuna
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu
Ojukwu University, Uli, Anambra State, Nigeria
A. Olatunde
Department of Biochemistry, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
C. Egbuna, G. Dable-Tupas (eds.), Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42319-3_24
Chapter 24
Role of Nutraceuticals in Maternal
Nutrition
Sadia Hassan, Neelam Faiza, Muhammad Adil Farooq,
Chukwuebuka Egbuna, Habib-ur-Rehman, and Ahmed Olatunde
24.1 Introduction
Since the very beginning of existence, food and nutrition have been indispensable
companions of humans. The early man searched the world for food and medicinal
products from natural sources. He continued his quest for growing his food basket
in the plant and animal realms, curing his illnesses and discomforts. The desire to
achieve vitality and longevity also encouraged the early man in his immediate
neighbourhood to experiment with anything possible. The early man became conscious through a process of trial and error, analysis and logical reasoning and inference (Pushpangadan et al. 2014). He made selections of a variety of biological
materials to improve health, relieve pain or other physical and mental disorders.
Therefore, the gathered knowledge was passed on to successive generations.
Creative leaders of the generations that followed progressed incrementally and even
added new skills to this traditional information network. Through our ancestors, this
traditional wisdom has come down to us and we now call it traditional knowledge
or ethnic knowledge. We consider this system of knowledge perpetuated by folklore, local health practices, tribal knowledge system, information structures based
on family and culture, among others. Consequently, all the world’s ancient cultures
S. Hassan (*) · N. Faiza
Institute of Home and Food Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Government College
University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
M. A. Farooq · Habib-ur-Rehman
Institute of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan
C. Egbuna
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu
Ojukwu University, Uli, Anambra State, Nigeria
A. Olatunde
Department of Biochemistry, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria