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Dietary Effects of Anthocyanins in Human Health: A Comprehensive Review
In recent years, the consumption of natural-based foods, including beans, fruits, legumes, nuts, oils, vegetables, spices, and whole grains, has been encouraged. This fact is essentially due to their content in bioactive phytochemicals, with the phenolic compounds standing out. Among them, anthocyan...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8308553/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34358116 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ph14070690 |
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author | Gonçalves, Ana C. Nunes, Ana R. Falcão, Amílcar Alves, Gilberto Silva, Luís R. |
author_facet | Gonçalves, Ana C. Nunes, Ana R. Falcão, Amílcar Alves, Gilberto Silva, Luís R. |
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description | In recent years, the consumption of natural-based foods, including beans, fruits, legumes, nuts, oils, vegetables, spices, and whole grains, has been encouraged. This fact is essentially due to their content in bioactive phytochemicals, with the phenolic compounds standing out. Among them, anthocyanins have been a target of many studies due to the presence of catechol, pyrogallol, and methoxy groups in their chemical structure, which confer notable scavenging, anti-apoptotic, and anti-inflammatory activities, being already recommended as supplementation to mitigate or even attenuate certain disorders, such as diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular and neurological pathologies. The most well-known anthocyanins are cyanidin 3-O-glucoside and cyanidin 3-O-rutinoside. They are widespread in nature, being present in considerable amounts in red fruits and red vegetables. Overall, the present review intends to discuss the most recent findings on the potential health benefits from the daily intake of anthocyanin-rich foods, as well as their possible pharmacological mechanisms of action. However, before that, some emphasis regarding their chemical structure, dietary sources, and bioavailability was done. |
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spelling | pubmed-83085532021-07-25 Dietary Effects of Anthocyanins in Human Health: A Comprehensive Review Gonçalves, Ana C. Nunes, Ana R. Falcão, Amílcar Alves, Gilberto Silva, Luís R. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) Review In recent years, the consumption of natural-based foods, including beans, fruits, legumes, nuts, oils, vegetables, spices, and whole grains, has been encouraged. This fact is essentially due to their content in bioactive phytochemicals, with the phenolic compounds standing out. Among them, anthocyanins have been a target of many studies due to the presence of catechol, pyrogallol, and methoxy groups in their chemical structure, which confer notable scavenging, anti-apoptotic, and anti-inflammatory activities, being already recommended as supplementation to mitigate or even attenuate certain disorders, such as diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular and neurological pathologies. The most well-known anthocyanins are cyanidin 3-O-glucoside and cyanidin 3-O-rutinoside. They are widespread in nature, being present in considerable amounts in red fruits and red vegetables. Overall, the present review intends to discuss the most recent findings on the potential health benefits from the daily intake of anthocyanin-rich foods, as well as their possible pharmacological mechanisms of action. However, before that, some emphasis regarding their chemical structure, dietary sources, and bioavailability was done. MDPI 2021-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8308553/ /pubmed/34358116 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ph14070690 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Gonçalves, Ana C. Nunes, Ana R. Falcão, Amílcar Alves, Gilberto Silva, Luís R. Dietary Effects of Anthocyanins in Human Health: A Comprehensive Review |
title | Dietary Effects of Anthocyanins in Human Health: A Comprehensive Review |
title_full | Dietary Effects of Anthocyanins in Human Health: A Comprehensive Review |
title_fullStr | Dietary Effects of Anthocyanins in Human Health: A Comprehensive Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Dietary Effects of Anthocyanins in Human Health: A Comprehensive Review |
title_short | Dietary Effects of Anthocyanins in Human Health: A Comprehensive Review |
title_sort | dietary effects of anthocyanins in human health: a comprehensive review |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8308553/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34358116 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ph14070690 |
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