ABSTRACT
Plant products and nutraceuticals are the food components made from herbal or botanical raw materials, which are used for preventing or treating different types of acute and chronic maladies. In the last decades, the number of research papers and debate about the potential use of nutraceuticals and food supplements has grown exponentially. For the regulation of dietary supplements, there is no global consensus on how the category of products should be defined. The formulation of herbal medicines is challenging particularly when using fresh plants for robust tablet forms due to the inherent variability of content and poor tableting properties of most herbal or powdered plant parts. Extraction, on the other hand, offers standardization of the extracted and concentrated tincture, thereby diminishing the variability of the dry mass and its properties in the tincture. There are several ways in which the plant products are processed using different granulation techniques described in different chapters of this book. The nutraceuticals are here to stay since the demand for alternative medicine is high and growing. The Global Herbal Medicine Market is expected to register a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 5.88% to reach USD 1,29,689.3 million until 2023.
