Bioactive compound profile and antioxidant activity of fruits from six goji cultivars cultivated in Switzerland

Bioactive compounds and antioxidant capacity of Lonicera caerulea berries: Comparison of seven cultivars over three harvesting years

“…This extract was centrifuged at 900 g for 10 min (Hettich Universal 1200, Bäch, Switzerland). The supernatant was used to measure sugars, ascorbic and organic acids content by HPLC as described previously (Kosińska-Cagnazzo et al, 2017). An Agilent 1220 Infinity series liquid chromatograph (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA) was composed of an autoinjector, a binary pump, a diode-array detector (UV-DAD) and a refractive index detector (RID).…”

“…On average, the highest glucose and fructose content was in 2015 and the lowest in 2014. The concentration of sugars in berries is largely affected by the ripeness stage, genotype and climatic conditions (Kosińska-Cagnazzo et al, 2017;Pokorna-Jurikova and Matuskovic, 2007). The weather in 2014 was characterised by high average temperatures and sunshine time but very low total precipitation in May and June.…”

“…Apart from growing of berries well established in Switzerland i.e. strawberries or raspberries, local producers get interested in establishing the cultivation of berries which are not typical for that region such as goji (Kosińska-Cagnazzo et al, 2017), aronia ("Passion for berries," 2016) or haskap berries.…”

Characterization of Lycium barbarum L. berry cultivated in North Macedonia: A chemometric approach

“…Due to its special nutritional composition (free sugars, carotenoids, polyphenols, flavonoides, vitamins, fatty acids, minerals, proteins, etc.) with health benefits such as immunity enhancement, antioxidant, anti-aging and anti-tumor effects, Goji berry has been proposed as functional food and included in the category of "superfoods" [4,[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. Other major aspects of the medicinal quality of Goji fruit are heart disease risk reduction, hypoglycaemic, hypolipidemic and neuroprotective effects, prevention of some eye diseases and male fertility facilitation [18][19][20].…”

“…Goji have been an important part of the traditional Chinese medicine for more than 2000 years. Rapid increase in consumption in Europe is noticed at the beginning of the twenty-first century [11,22]. Goji berries are consumed fresh, dried, processed into juice [4,9,10,13,23], as ingredient in snack, yoghurt and cereal bar [24] or as capsules and concentrated extracts [4].…”