Departamento de Nutrición y Bromatología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain.
Departamento de Biología Molecular e Ingeniería BIoquímica, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain.
Food Res Int. 2018 Mar;105:461-472. doi: 10.1016/j.foodres.2017.11.022. Epub 2017 Nov 22.
Fruits are foods that contain plenty of vitamins, minerals and some bioactive phytochemicals like polyphenols. Thus, fruits may exert different functional properties on human health, some of which are directly related to their antioxidant capacity like cancer or atherosclerosis. Owing to globalization, consumers have a wide repertory of fruits throughout the year. Among them, tropical and subtropical fruits are steadily expanding, as well as the studies about them. In this sense, this timely review focused on the nutritional value and chemical composition of persimmon and kiwifruit, two tropical fruits with a protective role on different chronic diseases. Thus, this review focused mainly on the presence of bioactive compounds such as polyphenols, tannins, carotenoids, vitamin C and the different functional properties (i.e. antioxidant capacity, antithrombotic activity, decrease of plasmatic lipids, etc.) arising from the presence of such biologically active molecules. Finally, the effects of genotype and ripening stage on antioxidant capacity and the content of bioactive compounds in persimmon and kiwifruit are also discussed.
水果是富含维生素、矿物质和一些生物活性植物化学物质（如多酚）的食物。因此，水果可能对人体健康发挥不同的功能特性，其中一些特性直接与其抗氧化能力有关，如癌症或动脉粥样硬化。由于全球化，消费者全年都有各种各样的水果可供选择。在这些水果中，热带和亚热带水果的需求不断增长，对它们的研究也在不断增加。从这个意义上说，本次及时的综述重点关注了柿子和猕猴桃这两种热带水果的营养价值和化学成分，它们对不同的慢性疾病具有保护作用。因此，本综述主要集中于生物活性化合物的存在，如多酚、单宁、类胡萝卜素、维生素 C 以及由这些生物活性分子存在而产生的不同功能特性（即抗氧化能力、抗血栓活性、降低血浆脂质等）。最后，还讨论了基因型和成熟阶段对柿子和猕猴桃抗氧化能力和生物活性化合物含量的影响。
