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Anthocyanins: The Infinite Properties of These Incredible Compounds 2.0

A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 4127

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Dr. Pasquale Crupi

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Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, 70124 Bari, Italy
Interests: metabolomics analyses of food products; primary and secondary metabolites analyses; metabolic fingerprinting analyses; metabolite profiling analyses
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Dear Colleagues,

Anthocyanins are acknowledged for their great color heterogeneity, ranging from orange to blue hues on the visible spectrum. Because of their wide distribution in nature and their structural diversity, they have attracted significant attention. They display a large range of properties and perform diverse roles in plants. In recent decades, scholars have increasingly turned their attention to these extraordinary molecules. Knowledge about their biosynthesis, bioactivities, and biological relevance, as well as their possible applications, is continuously expanding. Moreover, due to their relative abundance in one’s diet and their chemical and biological versatility, they possess notable health-promoting features. Nonetheless, only now are we truly beginning to understand how their absorption might relate to their bioactivity. Similarly, novel anthocyanin-enriching techniques have created new opportunities for several applications in various industry sectors as food additives, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals, for manufacturing food and non-food products. This Special Issue of the journal Molecules entitled “Anthocyanins: the infinite properties of these incredible compounds” aims to collect original research articles and review articles that can improve our knowledge in the aforementioned fields of anthocyanins research.

Dr. Pasquale Crupi
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Keywords

  • ecology and function
  • phytochemistry
  • fruits and vegetable
  • application in food and industry
  • biosynthesis and genetics
  • polymerization and degradation
  • bioavailability and bioaccesibility
  • methods of analysis
  • health and nutrition

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Targeted Anthocyanin Profiling of Fruits from Three Southern Highbush Blueberry Cultivars Propagated in Colombia
by Jessica Prada-Muñoz and Ericsson Coy-Barrera
Molecules 2024, 29(3), 691; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules29030691 - 02 Feb 2024
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The blueberry, a deciduous shrub in the Ericaceae family, is celebrated for its delightful flavor, sweetness, and abundance of anthocyanins and antioxidants, qualities that have garnered significant attention for their potential health benefits. Blueberries grown in diverse environments and exhibit varied anthocyanin profiles, [...] Read more.
The blueberry, a deciduous shrub in the Ericaceae family, is celebrated for its delightful flavor, sweetness, and abundance of anthocyanins and antioxidants, qualities that have garnered significant attention for their potential health benefits. Blueberries grown in diverse environments and exhibit varied anthocyanin profiles, often influenced by factors such as altitude and climate. Varietal groups worldwide have been bred and categorized based on their growth habits and specific cold requirements, particularly with southern highbush cultivars thriving in temperate climates, demonstrating tolerance to higher altitudes or cooler climates—a result of hybridizations involving various Vaccinium species. In the Colombian Andes, southern highbush blueberries thrive in unique high-altitude conditions, leading to exceptional quality due to the region’s cool climate and specific soil characteristics. In this context, this study aimed to chemically characterize and differentiate three southern highbush blueberry cultivars (i.e., ‘Biloxi,’ ‘Legacy’ and ‘Sharpblue’) cultivated in a Colombian Andean plateau and compare them to three commercially available highbush blueberries. This comprehensive evaluation involved examining total phenols, flavonoids, anthocyanin content, and DPPH· free-radical scavenging capacity, as well as conducting anthocyanin-targeted profiling via HPLC-DAD-HRMS. Through supervised multivariate analyses such as sPLS-DA, this study delved into the pattern recognition of those anthocyanins that could potentially serve as markers for quality and cultivar-related chemical trait determination. These findings locate blueberry-derived anthocyanins in a metabolic context and afford some insights into southern highbush blueberry cultivar differentiation to be used for further purposes. Full article
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Stability of Phenolic Compounds, Antioxidant Activity and Color Parameters in Colored-Flesh Potato Chips
by Catalina Bravo, Fabiola Peña, Javiera Nahuelcura, Catalina Vidal, Felipe González, Felipe Jiménez-Aspee, Luis Bustamante, Boris Contreras and Antonieta Ruiz
Molecules 2023, 28(16), 6047; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28166047 - 14 Aug 2023
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Potato (Solanum tuberosum) chips are the most consumed snacks worldwide today. Colored potato chips prepared from potato cultivars with red and purple flesh are a novel alternative to traditional potato chips because of their higher phenolic compound content, such as anthocyanins [...] Read more.
Potato (Solanum tuberosum) chips are the most consumed snacks worldwide today. Colored potato chips prepared from potato cultivars with red and purple flesh are a novel alternative to traditional potato chips because of their higher phenolic compound content, such as anthocyanins and hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives (HCADs), which might make these chips healthier compared with traditional chips. There is little information on the stability of these compounds. In this study, the nutritional value of these chips was evaluated by determining phenolic profiles, antioxidant activity and color parameters with liquid chromatography diode array and mass spectrometry detection (HPLC-DAD-ESI-MS/MS) and spectrophotometric methods during storage for four months. Five anthocyanins and three HCADs were detected, with the latter compounds being the most abundant, with concentrations on average between the first (97.82 mg kg−1) and the last (31.44 mg kg−1) week of storage. Similar trends were observed in antioxidant activity and stability, with the CUPRAC method showing the highest response among all the methods employed. The color indices were stable throughout the storage time. Based on these results, colored-flesh potato chips are an optimal alternative for consumption because of their high retention of phenolic compounds and antioxidant activity during storage, providing potential benefits to human health. Full article
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Bioactive Compounds and Antioxidant Activity in the Fruit of Rosehip (Rosa canina L. and Rosa rubiginosa L.)
by Fabiola Peña, Sebastián Valencia, Gonzalo Tereucán, Javiera Nahuelcura, Felipe Jiménez-Aspee, Pablo Cornejo and Antonieta Ruiz
Molecules 2023, 28(8), 3544; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28083544 - 18 Apr 2023
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Rosehips (Rosa spp., Rosaceae) are wild rose bushes with more than 100 species. Its fruits vary in colour and size, depending on the species, and are recognised for their nutritional characteristics. Ten samples of Rosa canina L. and Rosa rubiginosa L. fruits [...] Read more.
Rosehips (Rosa spp., Rosaceae) are wild rose bushes with more than 100 species. Its fruits vary in colour and size, depending on the species, and are recognised for their nutritional characteristics. Ten samples of Rosa canina L. and Rosa rubiginosa L. fruits were collected at different geographical points from Southern Chile. Nutrients such as crude protein and minerals and functional properties such as phenolic compounds, ascorbic acid, and also antioxidant activities were evaluated by HPLC-DAD-ESI-MS/MS. The results revealed a high content of bioactive compounds, primarily ascorbic acid (6.0 to 8.2 mg g−1 fresh weight (FW)), flavonols (427.9 ± 0.4 μg g−1 FW) and antioxidant activity. We established a relationship between the antioxidant activity using Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC), cupric reducing antioxidant capacity (CUPRAC) and 2,2-diphenyl radical (DPPH) methods and the concentration of uncoloured compounds, such as flavonols and catechin. This antioxidant activity was primarily associated with the samples from Gorbea, Lonquimay, Loncoche, and Villarrica localities, and all of them were of the species Rosa rubiginosa L. The results here obtained represent novel information of rosehip fruits. In this sense, the reported information about compounds and antioxidant activities in rosehip fruits allowed us to continue new lines of research in relation to the potential formulation of new functional foods and also in the treatment and/or prevention of some diseases. Full article
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Planned Papers

The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.

Title: Antioxidant phenolics changes during fermentation of olive cv Cellina di Nardò
Authors: Tarantini A.; Bleve G.; Ramires F.A.; Donati E.; Giusti M.; Blando F.
Affiliation: Institute of Sciences of Food Production (ISPA), National Research Council (CNR), 73100 Lecce, Italy

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