Author(s):
Rangel, Josefa ; Liberal, Ângela ; Catarino, Sílvia ; Costa, José Carlos ; Romeiras, Maria M. ; Fernandes, Ângela
Date: 2024
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/29867
Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
Project/scholarship:
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F00690%2F2020/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDP%2F00690%2F2020/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/LA%2FP%2F0007%2F2020/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F04129%2F2020/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDP%2F04129%2F2020/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F00329%2F2020/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/CEEC INST 2018/CEECINST%2F00016%2F2018%2FCP1505%2FCT0008/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/OE/PRT%2FBD%2F152088%2F2021/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/POR_NORTE/2021.04585.BD/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/PTDC%2FASP-AGR%2F0760%2F2020/PT;
Subject(s): Annonaceae; Traditional medicine; Africa; Nutritional value; Biochemical composition
Description
This review aims to gather available information on the medicinal, nutritional, and bioactive profiles of Annonaceae species in the African continent, sponsoring their use worldwide and mainly in African communities, where access to food and medicines for basic health care is scarce. >60 medicinal taxa were compiled, belonging to 22 genera, namely Annickia, Annona, Anonidium, Artabotrys, Cleistochlamys, Cleistopholis, Dennettia, Duguetia, Greenwayodendron, Hexalobus, Isolona, Lettowianthus, Monanthotaxis, Monodora, Neostenanthera, Polyceratocarpus, Sphaerocoryne, Uvaria, Uvariastrum, Uvariodendron, Uvariopsis and Xylopia; the most diverse and economically important genera were the genera Annona, Uvaria and Xylopia with 7 species each. Annonaceae species hold a valuable nutritional profile, rich in proteins, fibers, and minerals, being also good sources of a wide range of bioactive compounds of high biological relevance. These compounds are especially important in developing countries, where most of these species are available for direct use as food and/or medicines by the most deprived populations.
The authors are grateful to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) for financial support from the FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC) national funds to CIMO (UIDB/00690/2020 (DOI: 10.54499/UIDB/00690/2020) and UIDP/00690/2020 (DOI: 10.54499/UIDP/00690/2020)), SusTEC (LA/P/0007/2020 (DOI: 10.54499/LA/P/0007/2020)), LEAF (UIDB/04129/2020 and UIDP/04129/2020) and cE3c (UIDB/00329/2020 (DOI: 10.54499/UIDB/00329/2020)) and for the national funding by FCT and P.I. in the form of the institutional scientific employment program for the contracts of ˆA. Fernandes (DOI: 10.54499/CEECINST/00016/2018/CP1505/CT0008), and the PhD fellowships PRT/BD/152088/2021 and 2021.04585.BD of J. Rangel and ˆA. Liberal, respectively. S. Catarino was funded by GenoCash Project (PTDC/ASP-AGR/0760/2020).
