Issue 9, 2024

Medicinal and edible polysaccharides from ancient plants: extraction, isolation, purification, structure, biological activity and market trends of sea buckthorn polysaccharides

Abstract

Sea buckthorn (Hippophae L.), a well-known medicinal and edible plant, is known as the “king of VC”. Due to its excellent medicinal and nutritional value, it has been developed into a variety of functional products. Sea buckthorn polysaccharides (SPs), one of the important and representative active components, have attracted the attention of researchers in the fields of health food and medicine because of their potential beneficial effects on human health. Recently, SPs have shown various biological activities in in vitro and in vivo studies, such as anti-obesity, immunomodulatory, anti-tumor, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-fatigue, and hepatoprotective activities. This review provides a comprehensive and systematic summary of the extraction and purification methods, structural characterization, biological activity, and market trends of SPs to provide a theoretical basis for their therapeutic potential and sanitarian functions. A future scope is needed to further explore the medicinal and nutritional value of SPs and incorporate them in functional food products.

Graphical abstract: Medicinal and edible polysaccharides from ancient plants: extraction, isolation, purification, structure, biological activity and market trends of sea buckthorn polysaccharides

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
27 9 2023
Accepted
27 3 2024
First published
12 4 2024

Food Funct., 2024,15, 4703-4723

Medicinal and edible polysaccharides from ancient plants: extraction, isolation, purification, structure, biological activity and market trends of sea buckthorn polysaccharides

X. Xu, X. Liu, S. Yu, T. Wang, R. Li, Y. Zhang and Y. Liu, Food Funct., 2024, 15, 4703 DOI: 10.1039/D3FO04140A

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