Food and COVID-19: preventive/co-therapeutic strategies explored by current clinical trials and in silico studies
Foods, food ingredients, and their balanced consumption are recognized to have an
important role in achieving or maintaining a state of wellbeing by acting as carriers of functional
components and bioactive molecules. However, the potential contribution of foods to consumers’
health has so far only been partially exploited. The rapidly evolving scenario of the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is stimulating profound reflection on the relationships between