Jaboticaba: The Brazilian grape tree
(pomf2.lain.la)https://pomf2.lain.la/f/8anbitx7.PNGPhytochemistry and health benefits of jaboticaba, an emerging fruit crop from Brazil ... a rich source of a wide variety of phenolic compounds, including flavonoids, anthocyanins, tannins, phenolic acids, as well as less well-known polyphenols like depsides. These dietary phenolics and polyphenols are important natural products, most of them having human health benefits, such as treating or preventing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and stroke. In the past decade, there has been an increase in the number of publications about jaboticaba.
• Prevents cardiovascular disease (ipid profile diminishes triglycerides and bad LDL cholesterol levels in the body and increases good HDL cholesterol.)
• anti-diabetic properties (moderating glucose metabolism and low-gi)
anti-cancer (phenolic compounds, anthocyanins and other phytonutrients help in combatting free radicals, avert cell damage and DNA mutations)
• anti-inflammatory (avert the risk of various inflammatory diseases like asthma, hepatitis, inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis, glomerulonephritis, and COPD.)
• anti-microbial (polyphenolics and the mode of action of aqueous extract from jaboticaba peels against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli; destroys gram positive and gram negative bacteria interatcing with cell wall)
• anti-obesity effects
• Corrects gastro-intestinal issues and IBS (rich in fibre and regulates intestinal flora)
• Averts osteoporosis (fortified w/ calcium, potassium and magnesium)
