Volume 65, March 2015, Pages 247–258
Review
A review of the health benefit potentials of herbal plant infusions and their mechanism of actions
Highlights
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- Due to the existence extensive health benefits of herbal plants, there are growing interests in application of plants in various industries.
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- Polyphenolic, pigments secondary metabolites components and some vitamins are bioactive components in medicinal plants.
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- Each of the these advantages caused by special mechanisms.
Abstract
Nowadays,
there has been a universal propensity to application of natural
phytochemicals accessible in diverse intrinsic rich sources such as
fruits, leaves, branches as well as roots of different plants because of
existence of substituents with bioactive potentials, well-being
advantages and functional ingredients. The preservative consequence of
many herbs and spices are proposing the existence of compositions with
varied remedial specifications in their structures. Plants are
classified by geographical status and inharmonious territory that
created further than several thousands herbages with various advantages.
The various superiority of herbaceous infusions, such as antidiabetic,
anti-carcinogenic, antimicrobial and antioxidant are appeared in diverse
functions. Phenolic as well as secondary metabolite components have
been reported as the major components having health superiority, and
follow this, superb relationship between those advantages and various
measured antioxidant values, such as reducing power, scavenging and
inhibition capability of free radicals, and metal gelation activity are
observed. Hence, the current review intends to debate the effectual
fragments of medicinal plants with vulnerary potentials and explains
their mechanism of functions.
Keywords
- Herbal plant infusions;
- Antioxidant;
- Antidiabetic;
- Anticarcinogenic;
- TPC;
- TFC
- Corresponding
author at: Food Science Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences and Technology,
University of Algarve, Campus Gambelas, Building 8, 8005-139 Faro,
Portugal. Tel.:
+351 289 800040; fax: +351 289 818419.
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