Authors: Gülnur Ek?i Bona, Sevinc Kurbanoglu, Sibel A. Ozkan
Functional beverages, Medicinal beverages, Analysis Plant-based ingredient, consumer awareness of relation between health and plant products has driven the functional and medicinal beverages industry to put much effort into products with botanically fortified ingredients, addition of botanical products requires high-level knowledge of chemistry, functional beverages and medicinal beverages with botanical products, analytical methods such as electrochemical, chromatographic, spectrophotometric, bio-compound standardized, beverages fortified by the botanical substances and their potential health benefits, scientific evidence of many medicinal plants possessing immunomodulatory, immunostimulatory, antidiabetic, anticarcinogenic, antimicrobial, and antioxidant properties, plant materials, methods of production, biological activities, advantages, and risks of uses of herbal extracts for functional and medicinal beverages, antioxidant and antimicrobial effects of several herbal extracts, development of functional food products,