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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Five Underutilized Ecuadorian Fruits and Their Bioactive Potential as Functional Foods and in Metabolic Syndrome: A Review.

Rodrigo Duarte-Casar, Nancy González-Jaramillo, Natalia Bailon-Moscoso, Marlene Rojas-Le-Fort, Juan Carlos Romero-Benavides

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Dietary Supplementation with Protocatechuic Acid and a ComplexAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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  2. Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  3. Bioactive Potential of Arazá (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Rodrigo Duarte-CasarTecnología Superior en Gestión Culinaria, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador Sede Manabí, Portoviejo 130103, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0002-0884-6911
Nancy González-JaramilloMaestría en Alimentos, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja 110108, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0002-5069-3779
Natalia Bailon-MoscosoFacultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja 110108, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0003-2754-1328
Marlene Rojas-Le-FortTecnología Superior en Gestión Culinaria, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador Sede Manabí, Portoviejo 130103, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0001-6479-619X
Juan Carlos Romero-BenavidesDepartamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja 110108, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0003-1660-1217

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Ecuadorian Amazon harbors numerous wild and cultivated species used as food, many of which are underutilized. This review explores the bioactive potential of five such fruits-Borojó (

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FruitFunctional FoodMetabolic SyndromeEcuadorHumansPhytochemicalsPlant ExtractsPhytochemicalsPlant Extractsbioactive potentialcarotenoidsEcuadorian Amazonfunctional foodsnutraceuticalsphenolic compoundssustainable agriculturetraditional medicinetropical fruitsunderutilized fruits

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PMID38930969
PMCPMC11207112

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