Effects of Apricot and Apricot Kernels on Human Health and Nutrition: A Review of Recent Human Research

Hawar Jawdat Jaafar ()
Additional contact information
Hawar Jawdat Jaafar: Department Of Medical Laboratory Techniques (MLT), Erbil Health Technical College, Erbil Polytechnic University, Iraq

Technium BioChemMed: Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Biology, Chemistry and Medicine ISSN 2734 - 7990, 2021, vol. 2, issue 2, 139-162

Abstract: Plants are one of the most important sources of medicine for humans to face diseases and disorders. Despite some advances in the field of allopathic system of medicine, adverse reactions have not been prevented from being an integral part of modern medicine. Plants are one of the important sources of drug discovery in both modern and traditional medicine systems worldwide. Recent developments in food and nutrition, consumer preferences shifted to foods rich in nutraceuticals. Furthermore 70% of marketed drugs are either natural or semisynthetic materials which derived from plants. Most literature on complementary alternative medicine worldwide either reports the nature of phytocomponents in medicinal plants or shows a mechanistic basis for their pharmacological activities. The medicinal and therapeutic effect of apricot has not been studied so far. In this review, an attempt has been made highlight the importance of apricot and its kernel in human health and nutrition by summarizing the literature reports published to date. Apricot exhibited diversified effects on degenerative diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular and hemostasis, at the same time has many pharmacological effects such as anti-parasitic, anti-aging, anti-atherosclerosis, renoprotective, hepatoprotective and antioxidant have been reported.

Date: 2021
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://techniumscience.com/index.php/biochemmed/article/view/4328/1471 (application/pdf)
https://techniumscience.com/index.php/biochemmed/article/view/4328 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tec:bioche:v:2:y:2021:i:2:p:139-162

DOI: 10.47577/biochemmed.v2i2.4328

Access Statistics for this article

Technium BioChemMed: Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Biology, Chemistry and Medicine ISSN 2734 - 7990 is currently edited by Anna Maria Golita

More articles in Technium BioChemMed: Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Biology, Chemistry and Medicine ISSN 2734 - 7990 from Technium Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Anna Maria Golita ().