[HTML][HTML] Unconventional Edible Plants of the Amazon: Bioactive Compounds, Health Benefits, Challenges, and Future Trends

CTCS Miranda, SD Soares, WQ de Oliveira, AS Lima… - Foods, 2024 - mdpi.com
The pursuit of an improved quality of life is a major trend in the food market. This is driving
the reformulation of the industry's product portfolio, with the aim of providing nourishment …

Emerging berries from the Brazilian Amazon and Atlantic Forest biomes: new sources of bioactive compounds with potential health benefits

NH Noguera, DCLH Noguera… - Food & Function, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Brazil has a broad geographic biodiversity spread across its six different biomes. However, it
has been suffering from the abusive exploitation of its resources, which poses a threat to the …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges for a Brazilian Amazonian bioeconomy based on forest foods

CR Clement, H dos Santos Pereira, ICG Vieira… - Trees, Forests and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The creation of a forest bioeconomy based on the extraction of non-timber forest products
(NTFP) is being recommended to create wealth from standing forests and halt deforestation …

Physicochemical and nutritional properties of vegetable oils from Brazil diversity and their applications in the food industry

KL Correa, FB de Carvalho-Guimarães, ES Mourão… - Foods, 2024 - mdpi.com
In this study, the oils of açaí, passion fruit, pequi, and guava were submitted to
physicochemical analysis to investigate their potential application in the food industry. Gas …

Antioxidant, Antimicrobial, and Anticancer Potential of Green Synthesized ZnO Nanoparticles from Açaí (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) Berry Seed Residue Extract

IRS Vieira, AA da Silva, BD da Silva… - Waste and Biomass …, 2024 - Springer
Residue from the food agroindustry has been reported as an alternative source for
generating novel by-products, potentially applied in green chemistry nanotechnology. In this …

Potential of Brazilian berries in develo** innovative, healthy, and sustainable food products

NMP Araujo, P Berni, LR Zandoná… - Sustainable Food …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
There is a considerable diversity of Brazilian berries, purple in color, and potentially rich in
anthocyanins, which are an unexplored source of new foods, products, extracts, and …

A practical and eco-friendly method for the determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in açaí-based food products by vacuum-assisted sorbent extraction …

LES Nascimento, B Thapa, W da Silva Oliveira… - … of Chromatography A, 2024 - Elsevier
For the first time, a method for the simultaneous analysis of fifteen polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs), including light and heavy PAHs, in açaí-based food products (AFPs) …

Thinking about Alternatives to Açaí Waste in Amazonia Communities

JEC Leal, MCD Rambo, MM Pedroza… - Journal of the Brazilian …, 2024 - SciELO Brasil
In the Amazon, Euterpe oleracea Mart.(açaí), is part of the identity of traditional communities,
and the fruit is integrated into their everyday sociocultural dynamics. Hydrolysis and …

Bioactive and agroindustrial potential of Amazonian fruit species: a review

LN Cuéllar Álvarez, JM García-Chacón… - Cogent Food & …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Its high biodiversity makes the Amazon rainforest a strategic place to carry out
bioprospecting of fruit and plant species with nutritional, biofunctional, and technological …

[HTML][HTML] Use of encapsulated açaí oil with antioxidant potential in fresh sausage

AK dos Santos, NM da Silva, MA Matiucci… - LWT, 2024 - Elsevier
The effect of açaí oil capsules on fresh pork sausages was evaluated. Four treatments were
developed: C: without addition of açaí oil capsules, T1: with addition of 1.5 g/kg of açaí oil …