{"title":"From Desert Greening to Human Health: A Systematic Review of the Extraction, Unique Structure, and Bioactivity of Sea Buckthorn Proanthocyanidins.","authors":"Zixin Zhou, Zongyi He, Yu He, Qiang Peng","doi":"10.3390/foods14183203","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sea buckthorn (<i>Hippophae rhamnoides</i>) is an ecologically significant shrub that has been effectively employed to combat desertification. Recently, its economic potential has garnered substantial scientific interest. Sea buckthorn proanthocyanidins (SBPs), which are key antioxidant bioactive compounds found in sea buckthorn, exhibit remarkable free radical scavenging capacity and multi-target biological activities, including anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, vision protection, and cardiovascular protection effects. These attributes highlight the potential applications of SBPs in functional foods, nutritional supplements, and skincare products. This review summarizes the current state of research regarding extraction methods, structural characteristics, and associated biological activities of sea buckthorn proanthocyanidins, while also exploring future research directions to provide a reference for their further development and utilization.</p>","PeriodicalId":12386,"journal":{"name":"Foods","volume":"14 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12469302/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Foods","FirstCategoryId":"97","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3390/foods14183203","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) is an ecologically significant shrub that has been effectively employed to combat desertification. Recently, its economic potential has garnered substantial scientific interest. Sea buckthorn proanthocyanidins (SBPs), which are key antioxidant bioactive compounds found in sea buckthorn, exhibit remarkable free radical scavenging capacity and multi-target biological activities, including anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, vision protection, and cardiovascular protection effects. These attributes highlight the potential applications of SBPs in functional foods, nutritional supplements, and skincare products. This review summarizes the current state of research regarding extraction methods, structural characteristics, and associated biological activities of sea buckthorn proanthocyanidins, while also exploring future research directions to provide a reference for their further development and utilization.
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Foods (ISSN 2304-8158) is an international, peer-reviewed scientific open access journal which provides an advanced forum for studies related to all aspects of food research. It publishes reviews, regular research papers and short communications. Our aim is to encourage scientists, researchers, and other food professionals to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible or share their knowledge with as much readers unlimitedly as possible. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. There are, in addition, unique features of this journal:
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