Santonocito Debora, Montenegro Lucia, Puglia Carmelo
Department of Drug and Health Sciences, University of Catania, V.le A. Doria 6, 95125, Catania, Italy.
CERNUT-Research Centre for Nutraceuticals and Health Products, University of Catania, 95125, Catania, Italy.
Curr Med Chem. 2024 Jul 25. doi: 10.2174/0109298673309549240723054831.
Recently, considerable attention has been focused on the recovery and re-use of waste plant matrices as promising sources of bioactive compounds with health effects. As the Mediterranean diet involves the consumption of great amounts of fruits and vegetables, large quantities of agro-food by-products are generated, causing economic and environmental problems. Such by-products contain a great variety of bioactive compounds whose potential health benefits include anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-- cancer, antimicrobial, hypoglycemic, antidepressant, cardio- and neuro-protective activities. Therefore, in this review, by-products from the most common fruits and vegetables processed in the Mediterranean area, such as tomato, olive, citrus fruit, almond, pomegranate, carob, date, and grape, were taken into account, pointing out the content of bioactive ingredients in extracts obtained from different parts of plants, fruits, and vegetables. Furthermore, studies performed to assess the beneficial effects of extracts obtained from Mediterranean agro-food by-products were reviewed, highlighting the potential benefits of waste plant matrices re-usage in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and cosmetic fields.
最近，人们相当关注废弃植物基质的回收和再利用，将其视为具有健康效应的生物活性化合物的潜在来源。由于地中海饮食涉及大量水果和蔬菜的消费，会产生大量农业食品副产品，从而引发经济和环境问题。这些副产品含有多种生物活性化合物，其潜在的健康益处包括抗炎、抗氧化、抗癌、抗菌、降血糖、抗抑郁、心脏和神经保护活性。因此，在本综述中，考虑了地中海地区加工的最常见水果和蔬菜的副产品，如番茄、橄榄、柑橘类水果、杏仁、石榴、角豆树、枣和葡萄，指出了从植物、水果和蔬菜不同部位获得的提取物中生物活性成分的含量。此外，还综述了评估从地中海农业食品副产品中获得的提取物的有益效果的研究，强调了废弃植物基质在制药、营养保健品和化妆品领域再利用的潜在益处。
