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The rapid rise in Covid-19 infection to a pandemic stage in the face of a lack of choices for treatment, and prevention has taken a special purpose in this battle. The 1918 Spanish Flu with no vaccine to protect against the infection and no antibiotics to treat secondary bacterial infections associated with influenza infections, control efforts worldwide were limited to non-pharmaceutical interventions including, isolation, quarantine, good personal hygiene, use of disinfectants, and limitations of public gatherings, which were applied unevenly. These same measures hold good for the Covid-19 pandemic today. Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods for many reasons, largely their perceived safety, have gained popularity in disease prevention. Also, in the last 2-3 decades there have been well-designed and controlled basic and clinical investigations that have steadily added credence to nutraceuticals for disease prevention. This book is a compilation of reviews of data on different nutraceuticals that may be of relevance to the Covid-19 pandemic. These include probiotics, melatonin, plant bioactive, lipoic acid, curcumin, selenium, zinc, magnesium, and boron to name some. AUTHORS Prof. Chandan Prasad Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX, and Department of Medicine, LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans, LA cprasad@twu.edu Prof. Güler Öztürk Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul/Turkey. gulerturk@yahoo.co.uk