PAP Rashidah Sa'adatul Bolkiah Institute of Health Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Gadong BE 1410, Brunei.
School of Pharmacy, Taylor's University, Subang Jaya 47500, Malaysia.
Molecules. 2022 Mar 17;27(6):1948. doi: 10.3390/molecules27061948.
Common wheat (), one of the world's most consumed cereal grains, is known for its uses in baking and cooking in addition to its medicinal uses. As this plant's medical benefits are enormous and scattered, this narrative review was aimed at describing the pharmacological activities, phytochemistry, and the nutritional values of . It is a good source of dietary fiber, resistant starch, phenolic acids, alkylresorcinols, lignans, and diverse antioxidant compounds such as carotenoids, tocopherols and tocotrienols. These constituents provide with a wide range of pharmacological properties, including anticancer, antimicrobial, antidiabetic, hypolipemic, antioxidant, laxative, and moisturizing effects. This review summarized the established benefits of wheat in human health, the mode of action, and different clinical, in vitro and in vivo studies for different varieties and cultivars. This review also gives an insight for future research into the better use of this plant as a functional food. More clinical trials, in vivo and in vitro studies are warranted to broaden the knowledge about the effect of on nutrition-related diseases prevention, and physical and mental well-being sustenance.
普通小麦（Triticum aestivum）是世界上消费最多的谷物之一，除了药用外，还常用于烘焙和烹饪。由于这种植物的药用功效巨大且分散，因此本综述旨在描述 的药理活性、植物化学和营养价值。它是膳食纤维、抗性淀粉、酚酸、烷基间苯二酚、木脂素和多种抗氧化化合物（如类胡萝卜素、生育酚和三烯生育酚）的良好来源。这些成分使具有广泛的药理活性，包括抗癌、抗菌、抗糖尿病、降血脂、抗氧化、通便和保湿作用。本文综述了小麦在人类健康中的已确立益处、作用模式以及不同品种和品系的不同临床、体外和体内研究。这也为未来更好地将这种植物作为功能性食品的使用提供了新的思路。需要更多的临床试验、体内和体外研究来拓宽关于普通小麦对营养相关疾病预防以及身体和心理健康维持的影响的知识。
