Rubus Fruticosus L.: Constituents, Biological Activities and Health Related Uses
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The Patent Office, Kandawala Building, M.A. Jinnah Road, Karachi-74400, Pakistan
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Department of Pharmacy, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Sheringal, Dir Upper-2500, Pakistan
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Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Salerno, Salerno 84100, Italy
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Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, 43400, Malaysia
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Department of Medicine, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov 500036 Romania
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Molecules 2014, 19(8), 10998-11029; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules190810998
Received: 21 April 2014
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Revised: 14 July 2014
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Accepted: 16 July 2014
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Published: 28 July 2014
Rubus fruticosus L. is a shrub famous for its fruit called blackberry fruit or more commonly blackberry. The fruit has medicinal, cosmetic and nutritive value. It is a concentrated source of valuable nutrients, as well as bioactive constituents of therapeutic interest highlighting its importance as a functional food. Besides use as a fresh fruit, it is also used as ingredient in cooked dishes, salads and bakery products like jams, snacks, desserts, and fruit preserves. R. fruticosus contains vitamins, steroids and lipids in seed oil and minerals, flavonoids, glycosides, terpenes, acids and tannins in aerial parts that possess diverse pharmacological activities such as antioxidant, anti-carcinogenic, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial anti-diabetic, anti-diarrheal, and antiviral. Various agrogeoclimatological factors like cultivar, environmental conditions of the area, agronomic practices employed, harvest time, post-harvest storage and processing techniques all influence the nutritional composition of blackberry fruit. This review focuses on the nutrients and chemical constituents as well as medicinal properties of different parts of R. fruticosus. Various cultivars and their physicochemical characteristics, polyphenolic content and ascorbic acid content are also discussed. The information in the present work will serve as baseline data and may lead to new biomedical applications of R. fruticosus as functional food.
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Keywords:
Rubus fruticosus L.; pharmacology; phytochemistry; nutrition
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Zia-Ul-Haq, M.; Riaz, M.; De Feo, V.; Jaafar, H.Z.E.; Moga, M. Rubus Fruticosus L.: Constituents, Biological Activities and Health Related Uses. Molecules 2014, 19, 10998-11029. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules190810998
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Zia-Ul-Haq M, Riaz M, De Feo V, Jaafar HZE, Moga M. Rubus Fruticosus L.: Constituents, Biological Activities and Health Related Uses. Molecules. 2014; 19(8):10998-11029. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules190810998
Chicago/Turabian StyleZia-Ul-Haq, Muhammad, Muhammad Riaz, Vincenzo De Feo, Hawa Z.E. Jaafar, and Marius Moga. 2014. "Rubus Fruticosus L.: Constituents, Biological Activities and Health Related Uses" Molecules 19, no. 8: 10998-11029. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules190810998
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