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A review of pears (Pyrus spp.), ancient functional food for modern times

BACKGROUND: Pears have been world-widely used as a sweet and nutritious food and a folk medicine for more than two millennia. METHODS: We conducted a review from ancient literatures to current reports to extract evidence-based functions of pears. RESULTS: We found that pears have many active compoun...

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Autores principales: Hong, Sung-Yong, Lansky, Ephraim, Kang, Sam-Sog, Yang, Mihi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8409479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34470625
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12906-021-03392-1