Ease of Phytochemical Extraction and Analysis from Plants?

Abstract

Plants are vital and sustainable resources for our world. From the ancient times, they are not only supplier of oxygen but also the important part of the food pyramid. Besides, they are sources of thousands of bioactive phytochemicals. With emerging technologies, human being can made synthetic drugs based on phytochemicals to improve their life quality. However, nowadays, Humans have started the search again for natural sources because of emerging new diseases and side effects of drugs. Although lots of chemicals identified and purified from plant materials, it is obvious that there is still more phytochemicals than we discovered especially for foods. Determining full potential nutraceutical value of foods may lead classical breeding or biotechnological studies to more promising area. In concordance, aim of this review is to briefly indicate the bottleneck of analysis of plant phytochemicals by pointing the critical parts of the whole analysis process.