TY - JOUR
T1 - Dates palm fruits
T2 - A review of their nutritional components, bioactivities and functional food applications
AU - Idowu, Anthony Temitope
AU - Igiehon, Oluwakemi Osarumwense
AU - Adekoya, Ademola Ezekiel
AU - Idowu, Solomon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020. the Author(s), licensee AIMS Press. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a fruit bearing tree with a lot of prospects. Its fruits, and seeds otherwise known as pit and byproducts are made up of nutritional and medicinal potentials. In terms of commercial value, date fruit have not been fully utilized as a good functional ingredient to produce numerous health promoting diets. Meanwhile, date fruits and seeds are rich in nutrients such as amino acids, vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber, phenolics, etc. Dates possess a lot of bioactivitypotentials e.g. antimicrobial, antioxidant, anticancer, antidiabetic, etc. These bioactivities are enhanced by the presence of phytochemicals such as carotenoids, phenolic acid, flavonoids, tocopherol, phytosterols, etc. In ancient times, date fruits were widely applied for orthodox and traditional therapeutic purposes. Similarly, dates have been used as functional ingredients in some newly developed foods and for other purposes. All of this were reviewed and presented in this article. This detailed information will improve the worth of date fruits, seeds and byproducts as cheap sources of natural diet that can function both as nutritive and bioactive ingredients in the food sector, pharmaceutical industries and for other purposes.
AB - Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a fruit bearing tree with a lot of prospects. Its fruits, and seeds otherwise known as pit and byproducts are made up of nutritional and medicinal potentials. In terms of commercial value, date fruit have not been fully utilized as a good functional ingredient to produce numerous health promoting diets. Meanwhile, date fruits and seeds are rich in nutrients such as amino acids, vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber, phenolics, etc. Dates possess a lot of bioactivitypotentials e.g. antimicrobial, antioxidant, anticancer, antidiabetic, etc. These bioactivities are enhanced by the presence of phytochemicals such as carotenoids, phenolic acid, flavonoids, tocopherol, phytosterols, etc. In ancient times, date fruits were widely applied for orthodox and traditional therapeutic purposes. Similarly, dates have been used as functional ingredients in some newly developed foods and for other purposes. All of this were reviewed and presented in this article. This detailed information will improve the worth of date fruits, seeds and byproducts as cheap sources of natural diet that can function both as nutritive and bioactive ingredients in the food sector, pharmaceutical industries and for other purposes.
KW - Antioxidants
KW - Dates
KW - Nutraceuticals and food applications
KW - Nutritional value
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U2 - 10.3934/agrfood.2020.4.734
DO - 10.3934/agrfood.2020.4.734
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85103236943
SN - 2471-2086
VL - 5
SP - 734
EP - 755
JO - AIMS Agriculture and Food
JF - AIMS Agriculture and Food
IS - 4
ER -