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Apples: Role of Nutraceutical Compounds

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Abstract

Apples have long been deemed critical for maintaining a balanced human diet. This is attributed to the apple fruit’s contents of fiber, vitamin C, potassium, and various phytochemical secondary metabolites. In fact, apples are known to be excellent sources of various phytochemicals, including secondary metabolites such as polyphenols that have antioxidant properties that protect against oxidative damage. Therefore, these compounds in apple fruit provide additional health benefits to protect against disease in addition to their nutritional value. These antioxidant phytochemical compounds are termed as nutraceuticals. Efforts to investigate, assess, and enhance the nutraceutical content of apple fruits by capitalizing on the collective tools of genetics, genomic selection, genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and other “omics” are contributing to our expanded knowledge of the relatively new field of apple nutraceutomics. However, it is important to keep in mind that there is a complex relationship between nutraceutical content, gene expression, and environmental factors in apple nutraceutomics. This chapter will provide an overview of various nutraceutical compounds present in apple fruits, their roles in benefiting human health and alleviating human health disease, structural and regulatory genes involved in key pathways of secondary metabolites, as well as ongoing efforts and future perspectives in the field of apple nutraceutomics.

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