Functional food and nutra-pharmaceutical potential of goldenberry
The Goldenberry (Physalis peruviana L.) is well known due to its highly nutritious fruit with functional food value and medicinal benefits. P. peruviana is regarded as one of the most widely employed folk medicinal plants world over. Ethnotherapeutic and ethno medicinal uses of this species are well...
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| author | Anwar, Farooq Saari, Nazamid Khan, Rahim Batool, Aima Iram Huma Naveed, Naima ur Rehman, Muhammad Fayyaz |
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| description | The Goldenberry (Physalis peruviana L.) is well known due to its highly nutritious fruit with functional food value and medicinal benefits. P. peruviana is regarded as one of the most widely employed folk medicinal plants world over. Ethnotherapeutic and ethno medicinal uses of this species are well documented with scientific basis of wide classes of identified phytochemicals. Data shows that P. peruviana is used worldwide as a natural phytomedicine to cure different ailments. A long list of phytochemicals including terpenes, phenolics, alkaloids, esters and lipids are reported in different parts of this species. P. peruviana possesses a rich profile of broad range of high-value phytochemicals such as flavonoids, physalins, alkaloids, vitamins, carotenoids, and polysaccharides among others and is packed with an abundance of essential minerals, vitamins and antioxidants. The purpose of this chapter is to mainly cover the nutritional, nutraceutical and phytochemicals aspects as well as biological attributes of P. peruviana aiming to explore functional food and nutra-pharmaceutical prospects of this highly valuable fruit crop. |
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| spelling | upm-1169242025-04-18T03:00:13Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/116924/ Functional food and nutra-pharmaceutical potential of goldenberry Anwar, Farooq Saari, Nazamid Khan, Rahim Batool, Aima Iram Huma Naveed, Naima ur Rehman, Muhammad Fayyaz The Goldenberry (Physalis peruviana L.) is well known due to its highly nutritious fruit with functional food value and medicinal benefits. P. peruviana is regarded as one of the most widely employed folk medicinal plants world over. Ethnotherapeutic and ethno medicinal uses of this species are well documented with scientific basis of wide classes of identified phytochemicals. Data shows that P. peruviana is used worldwide as a natural phytomedicine to cure different ailments. A long list of phytochemicals including terpenes, phenolics, alkaloids, esters and lipids are reported in different parts of this species. P. peruviana possesses a rich profile of broad range of high-value phytochemicals such as flavonoids, physalins, alkaloids, vitamins, carotenoids, and polysaccharides among others and is packed with an abundance of essential minerals, vitamins and antioxidants. The purpose of this chapter is to mainly cover the nutritional, nutraceutical and phytochemicals aspects as well as biological attributes of P. peruviana aiming to explore functional food and nutra-pharmaceutical prospects of this highly valuable fruit crop. Elsevier 2024 Book Section PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/116924/1/116924.pdf Anwar, Farooq and Saari, Nazamid and Khan, Rahim and Batool, Aima Iram and Huma Naveed, Naima and ur Rehman, Muhammad Fayyaz (2024) Functional food and nutra-pharmaceutical potential of goldenberry. In: Handbook of Goldenberry (Physalis peruviana): Cultivation, Processing, Chemistry, and Functionality. Elsevier, Netherlands, pp. 299-337. ISBN 9780443154348 10.1016/B978-0-443-15433-1.00023-6 |
| spellingShingle | Anwar, Farooq Saari, Nazamid Khan, Rahim Batool, Aima Iram Huma Naveed, Naima ur Rehman, Muhammad Fayyaz Functional food and nutra-pharmaceutical potential of goldenberry |
| title | Functional food and nutra-pharmaceutical potential of goldenberry |
| title_full | Functional food and nutra-pharmaceutical potential of goldenberry |
| title_fullStr | Functional food and nutra-pharmaceutical potential of goldenberry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Functional food and nutra-pharmaceutical potential of goldenberry |
| title_short | Functional food and nutra-pharmaceutical potential of goldenberry |
| title_sort | functional food and nutra-pharmaceutical potential of goldenberry |
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