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Vaccinium myrtillus L. Fruits as a novel source of Phenolic compounds with health benefits and industrial applications – a review

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dc.contributor.authorPires, Tânia C.S.
dc.contributor.authorCaleja, Cristina
dc.contributor.authorSantos-Buelga, Celestino
dc.contributor.authorBarros, Lillian
dc.contributor.authorFerreira, Isabel C.F.R.
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-19T10:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-22T10:18:49Z
dc.date.available2018-01-19T10:00:00Z
dc.date.available2020-06-22T10:18:49Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractConsumers’ demand for healthier foods with functional properties has had a clear influence on the food industry and in this sense, they have been attaching natural sources of bioactive ingredients into food products. Vaccinium myrtillus L. (bilberry) is known to be a functional food, presenting its fruits in the form of a small dark blueberry. This coloration is due to its high content in anthocyanin, being also associated with bilberries’ beneficial health effects. In the bilberry industry, there is a very high annual loss of this fruit due to the less aesthetic shape or appearance, in which they cannot be considered suitable for sale and are therefore disposed of as biological waste. Therefore, it is of great importance to valorize this fruit and this review aimed to completely characterize the fruits of V. myrtillus in order to comprehend the relationship between their consumption and the beneficial effects regarding consumer’s health. Thus, this review provides a description of the nutritional and bioactive compounds present in bilberry fruits, followed by their beneficial health effects. An overview of the natural pigments present in these fruits was also explored, focusing particularly in the anthocyanins composition, which represents the most widely studied class of bioactive compounds of V. myrtillus fruits. Finally, industrial applications of these fruits and by-products, as an efficient approach to the production of value-added products with economical and environmental impact, were also discussed. In general, V. myrtillus is a rich source of micronutrients and phytochemical compounds, such as organic acids, sugars, vitamins, fibers and phenolic compounds (anthocyanin and non-anthocyanin compounds), with nutritional and functional properties, that justify the growing interest in these berries, not only for food applications, but also in the pharmaceutical industry.
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors are grateful to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) and FEDER under Programme PT2020 for financial support to CIMO (UIDB/00690/2020) and T.C.S.P. Pires grant (SFRH/BD/129551/2017). L. Barros would like to thank the national funding by FCT, P.I., through the institutional scientific employment program-contract. To the project AllNat for the contract of C. Caleja (Project AllNat POCI-01-0145- FEDER-030463). The authors are also grateful to FEDER-Interreg España-Portugal programme for financial support through the project 0377_Iberphenol_6_E. The GIP-USAL is financially supported by the Spanish Government through the project AGL2015-64522- C2-2-R.
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dc.identifier.citationPires, Tânia C.S.P.; Caleja, Cristina; Santos-Buelga, Celestino; Barros, Lillian; Ferreira, Isabel C.F.R. (2020). Vaccinium myrtillus L. Fruits as a novel source of Phenolic compounds with health benefits and industrial applications – a review. Current pharmaceutical design. ISSN 1381-6128. 26:16, p. 1917-1928en_EN
dc.identifier.doi10.2174/1381612826666200317132507en_EN
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/22340
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectAnthocyaninen_EN
dc.subjectHealth benefitsen_EN
dc.subjectNatural pigmentsen_EN
dc.subjectPhenolic compoundsen_EN
dc.subjectVaccinium myrtillus L.en_EN
dc.subjectVitaminsen_EN
dc.titleVaccinium myrtillus L. Fruits as a novel source of Phenolic compounds with health benefits and industrial applications – a reviewen_EN
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