Ursolic acid from apple pomace and traditional plants: A valuable triterpenoid with functional properties

Food Chemistry

Volumn 220, Issue , 2017, Pages 477-489

  Cargnin, Simone Tasca ^a   Gnoatto, Simone Baggio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Apple; Industrial waste; Terpenoids; Therapeutic potentials; Traditional plants

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DRUG PRODUCTS; FRUIT JUICES; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTES;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORIES; APPLE; ECONOMICAL VIABILITY; FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; HETEROGENEOUS MIXTURES; TERPENOIDS; THERAPEUTIC POTENTIALS; TRADITIONAL PLANTS;

FRUITS;

PENTACYCLIC TRITERPENE; TRITERPENOID; URSOLIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT; TRITERPENE;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; APPLE JUICE; EXTRACTION; ISOLATION; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PURIFICATION; REVIEW; SOXHLET EXTRACTION; CHEMISTRY; MALUS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; MALUS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; TRITERPENES;

EID: 84991585472     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: 18737072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2016.10.029     Document Type: Review

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