Corema album archaeobotanical remains in western Mediterranean basin. Assessing fruit consumption during Upper Palaeolithic in Cova de les Cendres (Alicante, Spain)

Varea, Carmen María Martínez; Ferrer‐Gallego, P. Pablo; Raigón, Ma Dolores; Badal, Ernestina; Ferrando-Pardo, Inmaculada; Laguna, Emilio; Real, Cristina; Monroig, Dídac Roman; Bonilla, Valentín Villaverde

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.01.004

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“…A mixture of buffered egg yolk, AAPH, and either ethanol or methanol (depending on the extract) was used as the control and BHT as a reference antioxidant. The percentage of inhibition of lipid peroxidation was determined for each extract using Equation (2), and the results were expressed as EC 50 values (mg/mL) calculated using a nonlinear regression analysis. Three independent experiments were performed and averaged.…”

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“…A mixture of all the reagents with either ethanol or methanol (depending on the extract) was used as a negative control and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) as a reference chelating agent (in the 0.003-0.050 mg/mL concentration range). The ironchelating activity was determined using Equation (2) and the results, presented as EC 50 values (mg/mL), were calculated using a nonlinear regression analysis. Three independent experiments were performed and averaged.…”

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“…The two species of Corema genus, C. conradii Torrey and C. album (L.) D. Don ex Steudel, can be found in Atlantic coastlines-C. conradii in the eastern coast of North America and C. album in the Iberian Peninsula and in the Azores islands (subsp. azoricum Pinto da Silva) [2].…”

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Novel Insights into Corema album Berries: Vibrational Profile and Biological Activity

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This study reports an evaluation of the biological properties of the edible berries from Corema album, an endemic shrub of the Portuguese coastline, aiming at its use as a nutraceutical. Different methanolic extracts were obtained from the pulp and seed of fresh berries: pulp extract, seed residue, and seed oil (extracted and characterized for the first time). For each of these, the antioxidant activity was assessed, by different methods, as well as the antimicrobial ability. Overall, the seeds were shown to be the most nutraceutical part of the berry since they showed higher antioxidant activity, while the pulp extract displayed a significant antimicrobial capacity against several clinically relevant bacterial strains. Furthermore, the extracts were fully characterized by complementary infrared and Raman spectroscopy, revealing the presence of phenolic acids, polysaccharides, sugars, and triterpenoids in the pulp, high content of unsaturated fatty acids in the seed oil, and significant amounts of phenolics and carotenoids in the seed residue. These results pave the way for a reliable correlation between chemical composition and biological activity, in edible fruit samples.

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Novel Insights into Corema album Berries: Vibrational Profile and Biological Activity

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“…CA and other analyses thus present particularly powerful tools for mapping the diachronic development of complex woodland catchments that were not limited to a single ecotone and/or were uniformly distributed across the landscape. In other cases, multivariate techniques can be used for integrating different archaeobotanical datasets (anthracological and non-wood macrofossils) thus enabling multi-proxy palaeovegetation reconstructions (e.g., Asouti et al, 2015Asouti et al, , 2018Asouti et al, , 2020Martínez-Varea et al, 2019;among others).…”

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Sampling and quantitative analysis methods in anthracology from archaeological contexts: Achievements and prospects

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2021

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“…The berries, white as basic color but with the possibility of developing a pinkish tinge, are quasi-spherical fruits with a small diameter (5 to 10 mm), a weight up to 0.66 g, a thick woody endocarp and usually have three seeds [6,7]. The water-rich berries, with a moisture content higher than 83%, have high levels of fiber (around 40%, dry matter), total sugars (62.80%, dry matter) and low protein levels [7][8][9][10][11]. In general, crowberries are more acidic and less sweet than other berries such as blueberries, raspberries or blackberries, but have a distinctly fresh taste and an agreeable lemony flavor [7][8][9][10][11][12][13].…”

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Knowledge and Consumption Habits Related with White Crowberries (Corema album L.)

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This study investigated the knowledge and consumption habits related with white crowberries (“camarinhas” in Portuguese) among the Portuguese population. It consisted of a questionnaire survey, undertaken on a sample of 501 participants, higher than 18 years old. For the treatment of data, basic descriptive statistics were used, complemented with the Mann–Whitney U test to assess some associations between categorical variables. Moreover, a tree classification analysis was carried out using a classification and regression tree (CRT) algorithm with cross-validation and a factor analysis was also used to treat the data. The results indicated that the majority of participants know the “camarinha” berry but the level of knowledge decreases from senior adults to young adults. On the other hand, the knowledge and overall perception about their nutritive value, sensorial characteristics and health benefits are low. Regarding the consumption of crowberries, it was found that more than half of the participants did not eat them, and 31.9% ate them only around once a year, mainly fresh, being hand-harvested from the wild by the participants. Furthermore, it was observed that the Portuguese considered that the information about crowberries is scarce, which could justify that only a small part of the participants recognized this plant as vulnerable, due to loss of its habitat, mainly by human actions and owing to lack of information. To fill the gap of information observed in Portuguese people, it is hoped that the project (IDEAS4life) that supports this work could contribute to increase the knowledge about this species and also to alert for the need of preserving this endogenous plant of the Southern European Atlantic coast.

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Corema album archaeobotanical remains in western Mediterranean basin. Assessing fruit consumption during Upper Palaeolithic in Cova de les Cendres (Alicante, Spain)

Cited by 13 publications

References 53 publications

Novel Insights into Corema album Berries: Vibrational Profile and Biological Activity

Novel Insights into Corema album Berries: Vibrational Profile and Biological Activity

Sampling and quantitative analysis methods in anthracology from archaeological contexts: Achievements and prospects

Knowledge and Consumption Habits Related with White Crowberries (Corema album L.)

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