Allaqaband Shumyla, Dar Aamir Hussain, Patel Ulpa, Kumar Navneet, Nayik Gulzar Ahmad, Khan Shafat Ahmad, Ansari Mohammad Javed, Alabdallah Nadiyah M, Kumar Pradeep, Pandey Vinay Kumar, Kovács Béla, Shaikh Ayaz Mukarram
Department of Food Technology, Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, India.
Department of Processing and Food Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Anand Agricultural University, Godhra, India.
Front Nutr. 2022 May 23;9:902554. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.902554. eCollection 2022.
Fruit seeds include a large number of bioactive substances with potential applications in the culinary and pharmaceutical industries, satisfying current demands for natural ingredients, which are generally preferred since they have fewer adverse effects than artificial components. Researchers have long been interested in the functional features, as well as the proximate and mineral compositions, of diverse fruit seeds such as tomato, apple, guava, and dates, among others. Bioactive components such as proteins (bioactive peptides), carotenoids (lycopene), polysaccharides (pectin), phytochemicals (flavonoids), and vitamins (-tocopherol) are abundant in fruit by-products and have significant health benefits, making them a viable alternative for the formulation of a wide range of food products with significant functional and nutraceutical potential. This article discusses the role and activities of bioactive chemicals found in tomato, apple, dates, and guava seeds, which can be used in a variety of food forms to cure a variety of cardiovascular and neurological disorders, as well as act as an antioxidant, anticancer, and antibacterial agent. The extraction of diverse bioactive components from by-products could pave the path for the creation of value-added products from the fruit industry, making it more commercially viable while also reducing environmental pollution caused by by-products from the fruit industry.
水果种子包含大量具有生物活性的物质，在烹饪和制药行业具有潜在应用价值，满足了当前对天然成分的需求，因为与人工成分相比，天然成分通常副作用更少，所以更受青睐。长期以来，研究人员一直对各种水果种子（如番茄、苹果、番石榴和枣等）的功能特性、近似成分和矿物质组成感兴趣。水果副产品中富含蛋白质（生物活性肽）、类胡萝卜素（番茄红素）、多糖（果胶）、植物化学物质（类黄酮）和维生素（生育酚）等生物活性成分，对健康有显著益处，这使其成为配制具有重要功能和营养保健潜力的各类食品的可行选择。本文讨论了番茄、苹果、枣和番石榴种子中发现的生物活性化学物质的作用和活性，这些物质可用于多种食品形式，以治疗各种心血管和神经疾病，还可作为抗氧化剂、抗癌剂和抗菌剂。从副产品中提取各种生物活性成分可为水果行业创造增值产品铺平道路，使其在商业上更具可行性，同时减少水果行业副产品造成的环境污染。
