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Bioactivities and Health Benefits ofWild Fruits

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms17081258

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wild fruit; bioactivity; antioxidant; anticancer; anti-inflammatory

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [81372976]
  2. Key Project of the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Program [2014B020205002]
  3. Hundred-Talents Scheme of Sun Yat-Sen University

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Wild fruits are exotic or underutilized. Wild fruits contain many bioactive compounds, such as anthocyanins and flavonoids. Many studies have shown that wild fruits possess various bioactivities and health benefits, such as free radical scavenging, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and anticancer activity. Therefore, wild fruits have the potential to be developed into functional foods or pharmaceuticals to prevent and treat several chronic diseases. In the present article, we review current knowledge about the bioactivities and health benefits of wild fruits, which is valuable for the exploitation and utilization of wild fruits.

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