Flowers: precious food and medicine resources
Flower plants are popular all over the world and important sources of ornamental plants, bioactive molecules and nutrients. Flowers have a wide range of biological activities and beneficial pharmacological effects. Flowers and their active ingredients are becoming more and more popular in the prepar...
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| author | Xuqiang Liu Senye Wang Lili Cui Huihui Zhou Yuhang Liu Lijun Meng Sitan Chen Xuefeng Xi Yan Zhang Wenyi Kang |
| author_facet | Xuqiang Liu Senye Wang Lili Cui Huihui Zhou Yuhang Liu Lijun Meng Sitan Chen Xuefeng Xi Yan Zhang Wenyi Kang |
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| description | Flower plants are popular all over the world and important sources of ornamental plants, bioactive molecules and nutrients. Flowers have a wide range of biological activities and beneficial pharmacological effects. Flowers and their active ingredients are becoming more and more popular in the preparation of food, drugs and industrial products. This paper summarizes the active ingredients, pharmacological activities and applications in the pharmaceutical and food industries of flower plants in recent years. In addition, the possible molecular mechanism of pharmacological effects of flower plants were also discussed. 302 active constituents from 55 species of flower plants were summarized, including flavonoids (115), terpenoids (90), phenylpropanoids (20), alkaloids (13), organic acids (27) and others (37). The pharmacological effects of flower plants are very extensive, mainly including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, anti-virus, and hypoglycemic. The mechanisms of anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor and hypoglycemic activities present the characteristics of multi-way and multi-target. Because of its rich nutrients, bioactive ingredients and plant essential oils, and its wide sources, flower plants are widely used in food, beverage, cosmetics and drug research. Flower plants also play an important role in pharmaceutical industry, food industry and other fields. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-741a38ebd8cd4c70aabe80b088ba3afe2025-02-03T04:05:21ZengTsinghua University PressFood Science and Human Wellness2213-45302023-07-0112410201052Flowers: precious food and medicine resourcesXuqiang Liu0Senye Wang1Lili Cui2Huihui Zhou3Yuhang Liu4Lijun Meng5Sitan Chen6Xuefeng Xi7Yan Zhang8Wenyi Kang9National R & D Center for Edible Fungus Processing Technology, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, ChinaNational R & D Center for Edible Fungus Processing Technology, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, ChinaNational R & D Center for Edible Fungus Processing Technology, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, ChinaNational R & D Center for Edible Fungus Processing Technology, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, ChinaNational R & D Center for Edible Fungus Processing Technology, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, ChinaFunctional Food Engineering Technology Research Center, Kaifeng 475004, ChinaJoint International Research Laboratory of Food & Medicine Resource Function, Kaifeng 475004, ChinaNational R & D Center for Edible Fungus Processing Technology, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China; College of Physical Education, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China; Corresponding authors.Hebei Food Safety Key Laboratory, Hebei Food Inspection and Research Institute, Shijiazhuang 050091, China; Corresponding authors.National R & D Center for Edible Fungus Processing Technology, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China; Shenzhen Research Institute of Henan University, Shenzhen 518000, China; Corresponding authors.Flower plants are popular all over the world and important sources of ornamental plants, bioactive molecules and nutrients. Flowers have a wide range of biological activities and beneficial pharmacological effects. Flowers and their active ingredients are becoming more and more popular in the preparation of food, drugs and industrial products. This paper summarizes the active ingredients, pharmacological activities and applications in the pharmaceutical and food industries of flower plants in recent years. In addition, the possible molecular mechanism of pharmacological effects of flower plants were also discussed. 302 active constituents from 55 species of flower plants were summarized, including flavonoids (115), terpenoids (90), phenylpropanoids (20), alkaloids (13), organic acids (27) and others (37). The pharmacological effects of flower plants are very extensive, mainly including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, anti-virus, and hypoglycemic. The mechanisms of anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor and hypoglycemic activities present the characteristics of multi-way and multi-target. Because of its rich nutrients, bioactive ingredients and plant essential oils, and its wide sources, flower plants are widely used in food, beverage, cosmetics and drug research. Flower plants also play an important role in pharmaceutical industry, food industry and other fields.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213453022002415FlowersActive ingredientsBiological activityMechanism |
| spellingShingle | Xuqiang Liu Senye Wang Lili Cui Huihui Zhou Yuhang Liu Lijun Meng Sitan Chen Xuefeng Xi Yan Zhang Wenyi Kang Flowers: precious food and medicine resources Food Science and Human Wellness Flowers Active ingredients Biological activity Mechanism |
| title | Flowers: precious food and medicine resources |
| title_full | Flowers: precious food and medicine resources |
| title_fullStr | Flowers: precious food and medicine resources |
| title_full_unstemmed | Flowers: precious food and medicine resources |
| title_short | Flowers: precious food and medicine resources |
| title_sort | flowers precious food and medicine resources |
| topic | Flowers Active ingredients Biological activity Mechanism |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213453022002415 |
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